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DR. WM. B. LAPHAM. 




wm. m. brooks. 



HISTORY 



WOODSTOCK, MR, 



FAMILY SKETCHES 



AN APPENDIX, 



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BY WJ^L^^M B. LAPHAM. 




V PORTLAND: 
STEPHEN BERRY, PRINTER. 

1882. 



INDEX OF ILLUSTRATIONS. 



I'AGE. 

Bryant's Pond from Dudley Hill, - - - 123 

Wm. M. Brooks, - - - - - - - 107 

John W. Brooks, - - - - - - - 184 

Alden Chase, -------- 193 

Prof. A. F. Chase, - - - - - - - 153 

Key. E. Dunham, - - - - - - - 211 

EuFUs K. Dunham, - ^ - - - - - 10^ 

Jeff. C. Gallison, ------- 155 

Hon. C. p. Kimball, ------ 231 

H. L Kimball, - - - 157 

Wm. B. Lapham, ------ Frontispiece. 

Geo. F. Leonard, - - - - - - - 237 

Orsamus Nute, ------- 243 

Hon. Sidney Perham, ------ 163 

Joel Perham, Jr., ------- 247 

Capt. E. S. Eandall, - - - - - .- - 251 

Charles 0. Whitman, ------ 265 

Harrison S. Whitman, - - - - - - 1 67 



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The history of the town of Woodstock presents no startling incidents, 
and few if any circumstances not common to other of the late-settled, 
interior towns of the State. It was settled long after- the last hostile demon- 
stration by the Indians was made in Maine, and therefore can contain no 
thrilling incidents common to Indian warfare in frontier life. The natural 
facilities for manufacturing were very limited, and from its settlement 
the inhabitants have mainly been engaged in pastoral pursuits. The his- 
tory of such a town, except to the people who inhabit it, cannot be es- 
pecially entertaining, and is valuable in a general sense only as its statistics 
aid in making up a complete history of the State. But to the inhabitants 
of Woodstock, and especially to those born there or descended from the 
pioneers, an account of its first settlement and' its gradual development from 
an unbroken wilderness, through its plantation life, to a prosperous munici- 
pality, filled by an industrious, thrifty and intelligent people, should possess 
some degree of interest. 

It is eighty-four years since the first clearing was made with a view to 
settling upon the lands within the limits of that town, and it will be eighty- 
four years in November next, since the first two families moved in. It is 
sixty-seven years since Plantation Number Three was incorporated and 
became a town, and all those who participated in organizing the new mu- 
nicipality have passed away. The last was Gideon Swan, who was born in 
1784, and was a lad of seventeen or eighteen years when his people came 
here. He died in 1877. Next to the last was Jacob Whitman, who was one 
of the first five families ; he died in 1873. But few of the children of the 
early settlers now survive, and the number grows less year by year. Those 
who survive are old, and in the course of nature must soon pass away. 
When one of them goes, the sources of information concerning the early settle- 
ment of the town are diminished, and it will not be long before the last link that 
connects the present with that early period will be broken. It was this fact 
that induced me to undertake the task of collecting and recording, before 
they had all gone, some of the incidents connected with the first settlement, 
plantation period and early municipal life of the town of Woodstock. Its 



4 INTRODUCTION. 

people are endeared to me in various ways. Though reared elsewhere, it 
was among them that I first launched my boat upon the sea of life, and my 
compagnon de voyage was a native-born of the town. My mother, also, first 
saw the light of day in Woodstock; there she died and there her dust re- 
poses. Her father was one of the first five settlers. 

I am well aware of the imperfections of this history. One source of diifi- 
culty and regret is, that it was not begun sooner, when more of the earlier 
settlers were living, and I «was a resident. It is a too common neglect. I 
have also labored under the disadvantage of living at a distance from the 
town while the work was going on, and of being too much cumbered with 
other cares and labors to be able to make that original research that is 
desirable in such cases. The most interesting part of a town's history is 
that which may be denominated unwritten ; it is also much more difficult to 
obtain. Statistical facts, relating to municipal affairs, if the records are 
properly kept, are always at hand, can be copied at any time, and at one 
time as well as another; but the unrecorded incidents in the history of a 
town can be obtained only from living witnesses, and if not gathered up and 
preserved during their life-time, they pass into tradition, and facts soon 
become so distorted as to be wholly unreliable. It was not until most of the 
early settlers had gone, carrying with them the story of the hardships, priva- 
tions and perils of their j^ioneer life, and the few who remained had become 
so aged and infirm as to make communication with them very difficult, that 
any effort was made to gather up and preserve unrecorded facts ; that portion 
of this history, therefore, which could have and should have been gleaned 
from these now extinct sources, will necessarily be brief. 

It may appear to some, that in certain directions I have gone unnecessarily 
into detail, but such should remember that facts with which they themselves 
are familiar from personal recollections, will be new to their posterity. 
John Quincy Adams once said that " Posterity delights in details," and 
most of us can testify to the truth of the saying. To all who have rendered 
me assistance in the compilation of this work, I am under great obligation. 
There are so many of them who have aided me in various ways, and the 
sources from which information has been derived are so numerous, that to 
enumerate all would occupy more space than can be given to an introduction 
which is already too long ; and without further remark, the following pages 
are respectfully submitted to the charitable and discriminating consideration 
of my former towns-people. 

WM. B. LAPHAM. 

Augusta, 1882. 



^pi^Te^Y 0F W0eDgT9CK.i^ 



The territory comprising the towu of Woodstock is generally 
hilly or mountainous. Its hills are often high and abrupt, and 
within the limits of the town are several mountain peaks, 
though none of them are remarkable for their great height 
above the sea level. In the west part of the town, abold bluff 
forms the western boundary of Bryant's Pond, rising abruptly 
from the water about three hundred feet, and for the first two 
hundred nearly perpendicularly. The summit of this mountain 
is in Greenwood. Nearly due north from this is a mountain 
which forms the easterly barrier to the waters of North Alder 
Eiver Pond. Besides these, there are nearly twenty distinct 
peaks, where the primary rocks have broken through and 
formed elevations of greater or less altitude above the sur- 
rounding country. Some of these were formerly wooded to 
their summits, while others show their rock-ribbed structure 
and are capped with granite or gneiss. Some of these have 
received distinctive names and others have not. There is very 
little level land in town. Along the beds of some of the streams, 
belts of bottom land have been formed, but they are generally 
narrow. 

The natural bodies of water in Woodstock are situated at the 
extreme west part and near the north-eastern extremity. Bry- 
ant's Pond is the most important, as forming the head waters 



6 HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 

of the Little Androscoggin Eiver. North Alder Eiver Pond 
discharges its waters into South Pond, the latter lying wholly 
in Greenwood, and thence through Ptound Pond in the same 
town and Alder River, to the Great Androscoggin River at 
Bethel. In the north-east part of the town, Great and Little 
Concord Ponds empty their waters through the Concord River 
into the Androscoggin in Rumford. Shagg Pond, situated a 
short distance south of the last two, discharges its waters easterly 
through the adjoining town of Sumner. We have no very im- 
portant streams of water. The outlet of Bryant's Pond soon 
passes into Greenwood ; t'iiat of the North Alder River Pond is 
all in that town. There are numerous brooks fed by smaller 
mountain streams, but in most of them the water is reduced to 
a mere thread in summer. Most of the streams have their 
origin in the mountain region, which is situated a little to the 
north and east of the center of the town, and flow away from 
them, towfird every point of the compass. This fact accounts 
for their insignificance for manufacturing purposes ; the con- 
formation of the land is such that they cannot unite and form 
larger streams until they get beyond the limits of the town, if 
indeed they do at all. The mountain region here referred to 
occupies about nine square miles, or one-fourth of the entire 
surface of the town. There are in the region ten distinct out- 
croppings of the rocky foundation of the earth, and most of the 
entire surface is unfit for cultivation. An interesting Kame or 
horse-back enters Woodstock from Bethel toward the north-west 
part of the town, and passing south-easterly to Pinhook, bears 
westerly to near Bryant's Pond, and then passes into Greenwood 
a mile or two below. This ridge was known as the " Whale's 
Back," long before Woodstock had a settler. This' was probably 
the bed of an arctic river, and the effects of glacial action are 
apparent in many parts of the town. -Huge boulders are scat- 
tered here and there, and ridges of rounded cobbles are found in 
many places. These are all interesting from the standpoint of 
the scientist, but they make agriculture tedious. 



HISTOEY OF WOODSTOCK. 7 

t 

The physical features of Woodstock are not unlike much of 
the surrounding territory. The same general characteristics 
are observed as we go northwardly to Canada, easterly to 
Katahdin, westerly to the White Hills and beyond, and south- 
erly for a considerable distance toward the sea coast. The only 
important difference that exists is found in the fact that those 
towns through which the larger rivers pass have broader belts 
of interval, and conseqiiently more and better arable land. 
This is true of all the Androscoggin towns, and some others 
through which some of its more important tributaries pass, 
such as the Ellis, Bear, the Swift, the Little Androscoggin, and 
some others. In its physical aspect, there is a close similarity 
in the entire region, embracing Franklin and Milton Plantations, 
Woodstock, Greenwood and Albany, and portions of the ad- 
joining towns, while a larger portion of the towns which circle 
around this territory are made up of better agricultural terri- 
tory. The soil of Woodstock is strong, but hard to work. In 
part compensation for this, we have a large area of most excel- 
lent grazing lands, and our facilities for sheep husbandry could 
not very well be improved. 

The rocky formation of Woodstock is generally granite. In 
some places, as at Bryant's Pond, are deposits of excellent rift, 
and valuable for building purposes. There is some resemblance 
between this and the Quincy granite. It is free from the com- 
pounds of iron and of other metals, and is therefore durable. 
The constituents of granite, which are mica, quartz and feldspar, 
are often found in considerable masses by tliemselves, and in 
many places they unite and form coarse granite or gneiss. 
Some small deposits of clay are found in the town, and occa- 
sionally slaty formations, though not of any great extent. 
Veins of trap rock are not uncommon. Fine specimens of 
crystallized quartz are found in some localities, and also other 
interesting minerals of which quartz forms all but the coloring 
substances. Mr. Nathan A. Perry, of West Paris, formerly a 
resident of this town, and who has given much attention to its 



8 HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 

mineralogy, sends iis the following list of "Woodstock minerals, 
as the result of his personal investigation : Amphibole, Apatite, 
Arsenopyrite, Beryl, Biotite, Calcite, Canaanite, Chalcopyrite, 
Columbite, Dove Marble, Epidote, Tibrolite, Galenite, Garnets 
(Yellow and Ked), Granular Limestone, Graphite, Green Mica, 
Gypsum, Limonite (Brown Hematite), Muscovite, Orthoclare, 
Phlogopite, Pyrites, Pyrrhotite, Pyroxene, Rutile, Rhyolite, 
Scapolite, Tourmaline (Black), Vesuvianite (Idocrase) Radiated, 
Vesuvianite (Idocrase) Zeolites (in boulder). 

Ores of iron, lead, copper, arsenic, zinc, gold and silver have 
been found within the limits of this town, in small quantities. 
Their distribution, in minute particles, in some of our rocky 
formations, have led some to believe that the precious metals 
and also lead exists here in paying quantities, and considerable 
time and money have been expended in prospecting, blasting 
and sinking shafts, but the supposed treasures yet elude the 
grasp of the eager seekers, and the realization of their hopes 
seems to be as far off as ever. If they are there — which is ex- 
ceedingly doubtful — they are probably so deeply hidden that 
human eyes will never behold them. 

The Flora of Woodstock differs in no respect from other 
places in the same latitude all through the State. The forests 
are made up of the usual mixed growths of rock, white and 
gray maple, beech, yellow birch, ash in several varieties, spruce, 
hemlock, fir, cedar and pine, though the original growth of the 
latter was not as valuable here as in some of the neighboring 
towns. There were very extensive areas of spruce and hemlock 
and of hard woods on the sides of the mountains. Pted oak is 
found in some localities, and poplar and white birch are very 
common as a second growth. Our hill-sides and valleys pro- 
duce an abundance of wild flowers in their season, and on some 
of our highest elevations are found flowers and plants of a semi- 
arctic character. 

From the character of the rocks, as already described, the 
nature of the soil will be readily understood. It is generally a 



HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 9 

gravelly loam, though alluvial soils are found in the bottom of 
the valleys, and in narrow belts along the margin of the streams. 
In some localities, also, as from North Woodstock to the outlet 
of Bryant's Pond, the soil is of that peculiar kind denominated 
drift. It is thrown into ridges, is full of rounded pebbles and 
cobbles, and in some places sandy. But this occupies only a 
small part of the area of the town. The soil generally was hard 
to subdue, is hard to work, but is strong and retains its pro- 
ductiveness in a satisfactory degree. 

The mountains of Woodstock, with the intervening forests, 
have always been the favorite haunts of the bear and some 
other wild animals, and the first settlers* found them herein 
great force — much greater than they have been found since. 
This condition of things developed some quite famous bear 
hunters, and many of these animals have been killed here since 
the town was first settled. They have often been very de- 
structive to the corn fields, but niucli more so to the flocks of 
sheep. Sable and beaver, and also the otter, were once here. 
When the town was first settled, several of our ponds abounded 
in the finest trout. Bryant's Pond, in particular, soon became 
famous, not only for the quantity of trout it and its tributaries 
and outlet contained, but for their fine quality. The water is 
clear and cold, it being fed largely by springs that bubble up 
beneath its surface ; it is the natural habitat of the trout. But 
these things are past ; the voracious pike has been introduced 
into nearly all of our ponds, and the trout are nearly extermin- 
ated. Other fish in our waters are of the inferior kinds, and of 
comparatively little value. 

The coast of Maine had been settled for more than a hundred 
years before the interior lands were even lotted out. There 
were two principal reasons for this. One was the importance 
of the food supply of .the ocean, which would not be available 
in the interior ; and the other, the hostile attitude of the Indians. 
It was not until the close of the French War, in 1760, which 



10 HISTOEY OF WOODSTOCK. 

resulted in wresting Canada from the French, that new settle- 
ments could be made away from the coast with any degree of 
safety. After the close of the year 1760, the great wilderness 
was pierced by settlers in various directions. There was a general 
movement all along the line, the lands on the larger rivers being 
those first selected. Fryeburg, on the Saco, was settled in 1762 
by emigrants from Concord, N. H., this being the first settle- 
ment made within the limits of Oxford county. Settlers also 
came there from Andover and from other points, and Fryeburg 
soon became a rallying point for new settlements farther back. 
Bethel was settled, or a settlement was begun there, in 1773, 
and Waterford in 1775. Brunswick was also a rallying pomt 
fof settlers farther up the Androscoggin, and New Gloucester 
and Gray for the central parts of this County. But the break- 
ing out of the Eevolutionary war called all the able-bodied 
men of New Sngland into the army, and the farther settlement 
of the interior of Maine was postponed. Towards the close of 
the war settling movements were again resumed, though not 
pushed with much vigor. Paris was settled from Plymouth 
and Worcester Counties, in Massachusetts, in 1779, Eumford in 
1780, and Buckfield in 1777, by people from New Gloucester. 
It was after the war closed, that a great rush was made for 
eastern lands by those who had been in the service. They were 
generally poor, government money, in which they had been 
paid, having become worthless, and they turned to the unsettled 
wilderness as the only place where they could hope to make 
homes for themselves and their families. There was a great 
rush of new settlers to the towns before named, and other set- 
tlements were begun. Sumner was settled in 1783, Norway in 
1786 and Peru in 1793. These towns are circled around the 
territory which now comprises Woodstock, Greenwood, Albany, 
Milton Plantation and Franklin Plantation, which was still 
left unsettled. Its rough surface was not inviting to the set- 
tler, and its situation away from any considerable water course 
kept settlers away from it. 



HISTOKY OF WOODSTOCK. 11 

The first road built through Number Three (Woodstock) was 
opened for travel before a clearing had been made in town. 
It was in the year 1795 that the settlers in No. 4 (Paris) and 
those at New Pennacook (Eumford) petitioned the Court of 
General Sessions for the location of a road that should connect 
the two settlements. Previously, and at this time, the distance 
— about twenty miles — could only be made on foot by the aid 
of spotted trees. The petitioners prayed that a County road 
might be laid out, beginning at the southeast corner of No. 4, 
and ending at the south line of New Pennacook. The petition 
was duly received by the Court in session at Portland, and 
received favorable consideration. A committee, consisting of '- 
John Greenwood, Nathaniel Coit Allen, Isaac Parson3,^^~ ^ 
IcHABOD BoNNEY and Peleg Chandler, was appointed to view' 
the route and locate the road. They begun at a hemlock trees •" k 
in the easterly line of Paris, and laid out a road two rods wide 
on each side of it. Some of the points named are " Solomon 
Shaw's House," "Abner Shaw's Barn," " Benjamin Hammond's 
Barn," to the center of a County road formerly laid out to the 
center lot in Paris ; thence to " Swift Brook," " Fall Brook," 
" Biscoe's Falls, at the bank of the Little Amariscoggin Eiver " ; 
to the " northwest corner of Paris " ; to the " southerly end of a 
ridge called Whale's Back"; to a "brook at the north end of 
said Whale's Back ; to a " Norway pine, standing in tlie south- 
erly line of New Pennacook." They were ten days in locating 
the road, and the entire expense to the County, including the 
pay of two assistants, was only ninety-nine dollars. This is the 
present traveled road which enters Woodstock from Greenwood 
a short distance above the Bacon place. Some changes have 
since been made. The old road went nearer the Swan, since 
called the Gilbert place, than now, and down the hill into the 
" Common " lot ; then turned quite abruptly toward the east 
and up the hill to where the present road is. Another change 
has been made on the Joseph AVhitman, now the Danville J. 
Libby farm, the road formerly going on the east side of the 



12 HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 

house. During the summer of 1796, the road was cut out and 
made passable, though still very rough. 

Mention has already been made of the fine fishing afforded 
by the ponds and streams of this region, and especially of the 
fine quality of the trout in " Long Pond," as Bryant's Pond was 
then called. There was also, in addition to bears which have 
already been mentioned, an abundance of small game in the 
woods, such as foxes and sable, and around the ponds and on 
the streams, minks and muskrats. This, then, was a favorite 
resort for hunters and fishermen from the settled towns, and 
especially those from Paris, who early found their way up the 
Little Androscoggin to its source in Long Pond. Among the 
frequent visitors to this pond, and who were in the habit of 
spending much of the summer here and then returning to Paris 
in winter, were the sons of Solomon Bryant, an early settler 
of Paris. They thus became thoroughly familiar with this en- 
tire region, and it only required the building of the road just 
described to induce them to make their homes here. 

The first two settlers of the west part of Woodstock, after- 
wards granted to Dummer Academy, were Christopher and 
Solomon Bryant, Jr. The territory was yet owned by Massa- 
chusetts, and had not even been surveyed and lotted out. These 
Bryant brothers had another brother not then of age, and sev- 
eral brothers-in-law living in Paris, and their purpose was 
to locate ten families upon this territory. They accordingly 
employed Thomas Joycelin, of Buckfield, a surveyor of land, 
to run out ten lots of one hundred acres each, five on each side 
of the new County road, for a family settlement. This was in 
the spring of 1797. When the town was subsequently lotted 
out, the survey of Joycelin was not disturbed, and the " thou- 
sand acres" remained, and has so continued, to trouble sur- 
veyors and mar the plan of the town to the present time. In 
the summer of this year the two Bryant brothers cut trees on 
the two lots they had selected, spending most of the season 
here in hunting, fishing and cutting trees. Christopher began 



HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 13 

on the lot now owned by John Day, and Solomon on the one 
where his son Eli long lived. In the following year (1798), 
they again came here, burned their trees and built for themselves 
log huts preparatory to moving in their wives. In October they 
came with their household goods, and on the twelfth of Novem- 
ber, the wife of Christopher Bryant gave birth to her first 
child, a son, who was named Christopher, Jr., and this was the 
first birth of a child in town. 

In the spring of 1799, Luther Briggs, whose wife was a sis- 
ter of the Bryants, came into the place and took the lot where 
Samuel S. Swan now lives. The same summer, Jacob Whit- 
man, Jr., from Buckfield, who had fallen trees the year before, 
came and burned them, built a log hut and moved in with his 
wife. He settled on a part of what is now the Town Farm, 
where he long lived, and was followed by his youngest son, 
Elan G., who recently disposed of it to the town. In the sum- 
mer of 1799, Luke Owens, an Irishman, said to have been a 
deserter from an English man-of-war, made a clearing on the 
Morton Curtis farm. He lived there four or five years, and 
then went to Paris. Levi Berry, from Buckfield, fell an open- 
ing on the farm since known as the Alexander Day, Jr., farm, 
it being lot Number Eleven in the west part of Woodstock, 
according to Greenwood's survey. He was not married, and 
boarded with his sister's husband, Jacob Whitman. In the fall 
of 1799, Samuel Bryant built himself a cabin on what has since 
been known as the " Common " lot, and moved in. There were 
therefore five families in town during the winter of 1799-80, 
namely : Christopher, Solomon and Samuel Bryant, Luther 
Briggs and Jacob Whitman. Luke Owens, who was then 
unmarried, also remained. In 1800, Levi Berry married a 
sister of the Bryants, and moved to the lot where he had com- 
menced a clearing the year before. Luther Whitman, brother 
of Jacob, also moved to the lot where he afterwards lived, and 
which has since been occupied by his son. It is probable that 
during this same year 1800, Asa Thurlo, from Buckfield, 



14 HISTOEY OF WOODSTOCK. 

settled upon the lot which long remained in his family ; that 
John Nason, from Paris, made a clearing on the farm in the 
Perham neighborhood and moved there. It is quite probable, 
therefore, that nine families wintered in No. 3 during the win- 
ter of 1800-1, not reckoning Owens. 

Massachusetts was always liberal in the support of educa- 
tion, and large grants of eastern lands were from time to time 
made to colleges and other educational institutions. In 1797, 
while the two Bryant brothers were lotting out their home- 
steads, falling trees and making arrangements to settle upon 
these government lands, the Legislature of Massachusetts granted 
to the .Trustees of Dummer Academy a tract of land three by 
six miles, equal to half a township, to be selected by the Trus- 
tees from any of the unappropriated lands within the District 
of Maine, excepting such as were situated within six miles of 
Penobscot river. The Trustees employed Lothrop Lewis, Esq., 
a surveyor, under the direction of the committee of the Legis- 
ture for the sale of eastern lands, to visit the wild lands in the 
District of Maine, and in 1799, he returned a plan of the west 
half of township Number 3, in the County of Cumberland, and 
recommended its acceptance by the Trustees. The circumstances 
which led him to select land so far in the interior and so far 
away from Penobscot river would be interesting to know, but 
there is nothing on record to throw light upon the subject. 
The object of the Trustees, doubtless, was to obtain land that 
they could soonest realize money from, and as a new County 
road had already been located and partly built through this 
territory, and as settlements were already commencing, it seemed 
quite probable that the whole township would soon be wanted 
for settling purposes and the proceeds soon be available for the 
purposes of the Academy. This may explain the circumstances 
and it may not. The location was accepted by the Trustees, and 
on the 5th day of March, 1800, the committee for the sale of 
eastern lands conveyed the same to the trustees, in terms as 
follows : 



HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 15 

"To all to whom these presents shall come : Greeting : 

" Whereas, the Legislature of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, in 
General Court assembled, by a resolve passecj^n the 27th day of February, 
A. D. 1707, granted to the Trustees of Dummer Academy, and to their suc- 
cessors, half a township of laud ^ix miles square for the use of said Academy, 
to be laid out or assigned by the committee for the sale of eastern lands, in 
some of the unappropriated lands in the District of Maine, belonging to said 
Commonwealth, excepting all lands within six miles of Penobscot River, 
with the reservations and conditions which have been usually made in sim- 
ilar cases; and whereas, Loturop Lewis, Surveyor, in pursuance of instruc- 
tions to him given by the committee for the sale of eastern lands, did in the 
month of November, 1799, return to the said committee a plan of the tract of 
land hereinafter described for the purpose aforesaid : Now, therefore, know 
ye that we, the undersigned, whose seals are hereunto affixed, being a major 
part of the committee for the sale of eastern lands, in conformity to the 
resolve aforesaid, do by these presents convey and confirm to the Trustees 
of Dummer Academy, and to their successors, a certain tract of land in the 
County of Cumberland, being part of township number three and bounded 
as follows: Beginning at the northwesterly corner of Paris and thence 
running easterly and bounded by said Paris, three miles and eight rods to a 
stake ; then turning and running north thirty degrees west, six miles to a 
rock maple tree marked ; then turning and running south sixty-eight and 
one-half degrees, three miles and eight rods to township number four (now 
Greenwood) ; then turning and running south thirty degrees east by town- 
ship number four, to the first bound, containing eleven thousand, five hundred 
and twenty acres ; conditioned, however, that the said grantees shall lay 
out and convey to each settler who settled on said tract before the first day 
of January, 178-1, one hundred acres of land, to be so laid out as best to 
include his improvements, and be least injurious to the adjoining land; that 
they shall settle on said land ten families in six years, including those now 
settled thereon, and that they shall lay out three lots of one hundred and 
sixty acres each, for the following uses, viz : one lot for the use of the ministry, 
one for the first settled minister, his heirs and assigns, and one lot for the 
use of schools in the said ti'act. To have and to hold, &c. 

" In testimony whereof, we have hereunto set our hands and seals the 5th 
day of March, a. d. 1800. 

Samuel Phipps, 
Levi Jarvis, 
John Read." 

Thus, what is now the west part of Woodstock, passed from 
the Government of Massachusetts to the Trustees of Dummer 
Academy, and took the name of " Dummer Academy Grant." 
The Trustees, however, did not hold it long, but disposed of it 



16 HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 

SO soon as they could realize what they regarded as a fair price 
for it. On the thirteenth day of October, A. d. 1800, Micaijah 
Sawyer, for and in behalf of the Trustees, deeded the grant to 
Michael Little,* of Poland, for and in consideration of the 
sum of six thousand two hundred and forty dollars. 

In the spring of 1801, Mr. Little took measures to have his 
half township settled, and to that end, employed Alexander 
Greenwood, of Hebron, a well-known surveyor of land, to go 
to Number 3, and run it out into lots. There were no settlers 
in the half township that could claun the benefit of the condi- 
tions named in the grant to Dummer Academy, and each squatter 
was under legal obligation to pay for his land. Mr. Little 
also might have disregarded the survey of the " thousand acres " 
in lotting out his half township, but he did not choose to do so. 
He was under obligations to perform the conditions imposed 
upon the Trustees of Dummer Academy, with regard to getting 
a certain number of settlers upon the land within a specified 
time, aind he probably felt it to be his best policy to conciliate 
and keep quiet those already there. Mr. Greenwood, accom- 
panied by Stephen Chase and other assistants, visited the 
township in March, but found the snow so deep that it was im- 
possible for them to do the work at that time, and so returned 
home. But later in the season they came again, and the land 
was run out into lots, generally of one hundred and sixty acres 
each. The land being lotted out, Mr. Little began to make 
efforts to have it settled. In the fall of 1801, Stephen Chase, 
who had been in Mr. Little's employ in Lewiston, and who 
had assisted in lotting out the township, accompanied by his 



♦Michael Little was son of Col. JosiAH and Sarah Tappan Little, of New- 
bury, Mass., and was born tliere March 14, 1772. He graduated at Dartmouth College 
in 1792, married Oct. 19, 1800, Sarah Storer. For second wife, he married Elizabeth 
Kicker, of Somersworth, N. H., who survived him. His only child, and that by his first 
wife, was Josiah Stover Little, the late President of the Atlantic and St. Lawrence 
Railroad Company. Michael Little moved to Lewiston, and built a house there, 
which is still standing on Main Street, a short distance from the bridge. He was a 
man of enterprise and business capacity, and a large owner of wild lauds. He died 
March 16, 1830. 



HISTOEY OF WOODSTOCK. 17 

brother, Merrill Chase, came to Number 3, with the view of 
selecting lots for themselves. After spending some time in 
prospecting, Stephen Chase selected lot number tliirty-three, 
and Merrill lot number twenty-eight. These were adjoining 
lots, and situated south-easterly from the one afterwards se- 
lected by David Ricker and still known as the " Eicker " farm. 
They felled a piece of trees upon each of their respective lots, in 
such a manner that their clearhigs were together, and their log 
houses, which .they put up and partly finished the same fall, 
were near each other. In March following, they moved in 
with their families. For five years after he came to town, 
Stephen Chase kept a journal, copious extracts from which 
may be found in another part of this book. A perusal of this 
journal shows us the simple habits, the daily routine and the 
more important happenings in this plantation up to the year 
1806. Settlers came in very slowly. In 1803, Tilden Bart- 
LETT purchased lot numbered fifteen, but he never moved to it. 
Several years subsequent, he bought land on the Gore and 
moved, as will be shown in a sketch of the Gore. Noah 
Curtis, from Norway, purchased lot number ten in 1804, and 
moved to it that year. This was the lot occupied by his sou 
Seth, and later by his grandson Adoniram. Noah Curtis had 
a family of grown-up boys, one of whom, Morton, in 1-805, 
bought lot number fifteen of Tilden Bartlett ; this was the 
lot on which Luke Owens first made a clearing, the one which 
Morton Curtis occupied during his lifetime, and which his 
son Crosby occupied after him. Consider Fuller moved into 
Woodstock in 1801 ; he settled on Gore B, afterwards occupied 
by Charles Curtis and others. 

Soon after a settlement in the west part of Woodstock was 
effected, a section two lots wide and running the width of the 
half township on Paris line, was run out on the east half by a 
surveyor named John K. Smith. These lots were of different 
sizes, and in number some twelve or fifteen. Abraham and 
2 



18 HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 

Jonathan Walton* settled upon two of these lots, and the 
former, if not the latter, was here in 1801. Mr. A. Hutchinson 
and also E. Hutchinson occupied two other lots. Still another 
was taken up by a man named Eeniff. Benj. Fobes bought 
lot number seven, according to Smith's survey in 1804, and 
soon after John Gray and John Starbird bought two adjoin- 
ing lots; the two last named lots, in 1825, were annexed to 
Paris. 

On the twenty-third of June, a. d. 1803, the Legislature of 
Massachusetts granted to the Trustees of Gofham Academy 
the eastern half of township number three in the County of 
Cumberland, including the portion already settled. The grant 
was made with the condition that before its proceeds could be 
made available to the Academy, the Trustees should raise the 
sum of three thousand dollars by private subscription, within 
one year from the date of the passage of the act. The specified 
amount was raised within the time named, and Lothrop Lewis 
and Matthew Cobb were a committee for running out the 
land. The grant was surveyed in 1806 by Gen. James Irish, 
of Gorham, afterwards Land Agent of Maine. In this, as in 
the survey of the " Thousand Acres " in the west part, the pre- 
vious survey of a few lots by Smith was not disturbed, and 
these lots are still referred to in all conveyances of the same as 
" according to Smith's survey." Soon after the survey was made, 
that is in 1807, the entire grant was sold by the Trustees to 
James H. Chadbourn and twenty others, mostly citizens of 
Gorham, for the sum of ten thousand dollars. The purchasers 
divided the land among themselves, and afterwards sold it out 
to settlers. 

At this time Maine settling lands were very cheap, and there 



* Perhaps a clearing was made on this territory even before the Bryaxts came to 
the west part, by Waltox and Hi'tchixsox, who built log huts and wintered here, in 
which case they were really the first settlers in town. If this is true, which is by no 
means certain, they did not remain long, and the Bryaxts have always been re- 
garded as the first permanent settlers. 



HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. ■ 19 

was scarcely any difference in the price between a' good and a 
poor settling lot. The result was that good townships filled up 
rapidly, while such un«v^en, unattractive townships as number 
three were overlooked and neglected. In the spring of 1804, 
Cornelius Perkins came from Paris to lot number six in the 
east part, and was the first settler in the school district whicli 
ever since its formation has borne his name. He was an in- 
dustrious and useful citizen, and raised up a large family of 
sons, thus adding materially to the population of the town. 
George Townsend, Lazarus Eand and David Rand, and also 
Benaiah Dow, settled in the east part. When the western 
emigration fever broke out, several families from the east part, 
including the Townsends, Waltons and perhaps others, went 
to Ohio. About the year 1812, widow Lydia Dunham, whose 
husband, Asa Dunham, was in the 1812 war, and had died in 
the hospital at Burlington, Vt., moved from Norway to the 
Dunham neighborhood, since called. Her two older sons, Asa 
and Samuel, settled at North Paris, but Sylvanus, Joseph and 
Daniel remained in Woodstock, and reared up families of 
industrious sons who made useful citizens. About the same 
time, the sons and daughters of Luther Dudley, who had 
recently died in Paris, came into the Dunham neighborhood 
and settled there. Josiah Dudley, the oldest son, was for 
many years one of our most valuable citizens. He went from 
here to Paris. So far as the records show, this embraces about 
all the settlements in the east part of number three up to 1812, 
when the two half townships were united for plantation pur- 
poses. 

David Iticker, Jr., born in Somersworth, N. H., who came 
to Minot and had been in the employ of Michael Little, 
whose second wife was his near relative, came to number three 
in 1803, and settled on lot number twenty-seven, the same 
since occupied by his son David, Jr. An opening was made 
on the place the year before. John True bought lot number 
twenty-one about the year 1801, built a house upon it and 



20 HISTOEY OF -WOODSTOCK. 

moved here ; but in 1807, he sold out to Enoch Hammond and 
returned to Poland, whence he came. In 1802, William Swan, 
of Paris, two of whose daughters had n^rried Christopher and 
Solomon Bryant, came here and bought out the farm on which 
Luther Briggs had settled in the "Thousand Acres." He 
died prior to 1815. His son William, Jr., came at the same 
time and settled on number five west,"' Thousand Acres." Mr. 
Briggs bought half of lot number twelve and part of lot num- 
ber eleven, and moved there. He lived and died upon this 
farm. Jotham Perham, son of Lemuel, of Paris, came here 
in 1808, and settled on lot number fifty-six, in the west 
part, this lot bordering on the east part of the township. 
James Nutting, who had been in the employ of Michael 
Little, as millman, at Lewiston, came into town previous to 
1812, and settled on a half lot in the Curtis neighborhood. 
Mr. Little gave him a lot of land, on condition that he would 
come and settle it. Edward Lothrop, whose wife was a sister 
of Luther and Jacob Whitman, came here about the year 1810 
and settled on lot number fifty-nine ; this was afterwards the 
Packard farm. Asa Thurlow came here in the spring of 1801, 
and settled on lot number sixteen. Rowse Bisbee, son of 
Charles, of Sumner, came here probably in 1808, and built a 
mill on the stream near Abel Bacon's. He afterwards moved 
to lot number fifty -seven, and was there in 1812. This lot had 
previously been occupied by John Nason. Levi Drew was 
here in 1812. The Drew ojDeniug, so called, in the Perham 
neighborhood was probably made by him. Joshua Felt, a 
native of Temple, N. H., came here from Rumford in 1810. 
He settled near Noah Curtis, Jr., who lived on the place since 
known as the Dudley farm. He died in 1812, but his family 
remained, and the widow subsequently married Merrill Chase. 
Edward Pollard was living in Number Three in 1803, some- 
where between Asa Thurlow's and Stephen Chase's, but he 
moved to the east part, as seen in Chase's journal, and soon 
after out of the plantation. Lemuel Perham and Lemuel 



HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 21 

Perham, Jr., were Loth here in 1812, and they probably came 
in thr.t year. The former, and probably both of them, lived 
near the place where Jotham Perham settled four years before. 
In 1812, Plantation Number Three (for the two half town- 
ships now about to»be united for municipal purposes will here- 
after be spoken of as a unit) had been settled fourteen years 
and contained forty-two families. There is much evidence 
going to show that these fourteen years, to the pioneer settlers, 
had been years of toil and privation. They were, without a 
single exception, poor men, with nothing but their hands with 
which to wi-est from a rough surface and hard soil, the means 
of subsistence for themselves and for their families. It was a 
hand to hand struggle for existence. The town was for the 
most part covered with a heavy growth of wood, and the cutting 
down of these great trees and getting rid of their giant trunks, 
so that the land could be worked and subdued, involved an 
amount of labor of which only those who have had the personal 
experience can form any just estimate. The climate of that 
region has changed materially since that time. Then a crop of 
Indian corn, which was the chief dependence of the early 
settlers, was very likely to be destroyed by early frosts, and the 
loss of this crop to this people meant pinching want for the 
year following. There were no western granaries then to supply 
the deficiencies in food-production here, and if there had been, 
there were no facilities for transportation. The people, so far 
in the interior, were obliged to subsist on what they could raise, 
and the loss of a single crop was to them a matter of great 
moment. I have often conversed with persons who lived in 
Plantation Number Three during those years, and they all told 
the same story of hard work, deprivation, and sometimes of 
pinching hunger. Wheaten flour was found in but few houses, 
and as an every day diet in none ; it was reserved for company 
or some such special occasion. Sugar, except maple, was a 
luxury not often indulged in, and those families that could 
afford it at all made a single sugar loaf last a year. Up to 



22 HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. ' 

1808, tliey had no grist mill, and all their milling was done in 
Paris. They had no stores, and were obliged to go to Paris 
Hill, over a hard road, for what few groceries they were able to 
purchase ; they had no physician nearer than Paris Hill, and 
few religious privileges. As one of them once expressed it in 
my hearing, " We were too poor to live without suffering for the 
necessaries of life here, and too poor to'go. anywhere else." And 
so they tgiled on, year after year, hoping for better days, and their 
hopes were realized, as will be seen in the course of this history. 
At the end of these • fourteen years, since the two Bryant 
brothers became the pioneers of the forty families that followed, 
let us look over the plantation and see where the settlements 
are and who have made them. Beginning on the County road, 
next to Greenwood, first we have the place of Jacob Whitman. 
Following northwardly, we come to the place of Rowse Bisbee, 
who still run the mill built by him in 1808. The next place 
was Luther Whitman's. Farther on, was the place where two 
Packard brothers from Buckfield, have cut down trees, but 
they never moved here. John Dacy came here next, and 
then Alexander Day. Farther on, on the right, was William 
Swan ; Gideon was also living here at that time. Wliether 
William Swan, Senior, was then living, the records do not 
show ; three years later he was dead, and his widow, Lucy, 
occupied his old place. On the left, Samuel Bryant had made 
a clearing and built a hut on the Common lot and had lived 
there ; but ere this he had moved to the south part of the 
town ; whether his old house was occupied at this time, and if 
so by whom, cannot be told. Farther on was the home of 
Solomon Bryant, and the next was that of his brother Christo- 
pher. Noah Curtis, Jr., was on the Dudley place ; beyond was 
the home of the widow Felt. Charles Curtis and Consider 
Fuller lived somewhere on this road, and Edward Lothrop was 
on the Stephen Packard place. Joseph Whitman was on the 
place now occupied by D. J. Libby. This was the last house 
in that direction within the limits of number three. John 



HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 23 

Billings, who settled farther along, had not yet come. Below 
the Packard place, a road run easterly south of where the old 
town house stood, and into the Perhani neighborhood. Upon 
and near this road lived John Nason, Jotham Perham, Lemuel 
Perham and Lemuel Perham, Jr., and perhaps Levi Drew. 
The former roads and buildings have been so changed since, 
that it is difficult to point out the exact location of these settlers. 
Commencing again at the road that leads from the Benjamin 
Bacon place to the Curtis neighborhood, the first was Samuel 
Bryant's, and perhaps his father, Solomon Bryant, lived with 
him ; he had the west part of lot twelve. The next was Luther 
Briggs. Levi Berry had moved to Paris, and his lot number 
eleven was now occupied by James Nutting. Morton Curtis 
lived on lot numljer fifteen, formerly occupied by Luke Owens, 
and Noah Curtis, Sen., and Seth on the adjoining lot. Enoch 
Hammond lived on number twenty-one, or the True lot, and 
Asa Thurlow on lot number sixteen adjoining. Going north 
on this road, Merrill Chase lived on number twenty-eight, and 
adjoining that was the farm of his brother Steplien, number 
thirty-three. West of Merrill Chase, on the next lot, was David 
Bicker, on lot number twenty-seven. These latter houses were 
situated on a road that formerly went from the Chase places, 
south-easterly, by way of Enoch Hammond's and Asa Thurlow's, 
to Paris. 

How the settlers were situated in the east part, is not so 
easily told. The second County road, located through •Number ♦ 
Three, started at North Paris and was to extend through Mil- 
ton Plantation to Kumford. A part of the road was built, but 
it was never finished through. Upon the line of this road the 
first settlers in the Dunham neighborhood were located. Here 
and in the vicinity were Lydia Dunham with her family ; also 
the family of Luther Dudley, the Bands, Townsends, Waltons, 
Hutchinsons, etc. Cornehus Perkins was on a settler's road, 
and Benaiah Dow located far toward Sumner. Benj. Fobes, 
who was still here in 1812, lived on the first tier of lots run out 



24 HISTOEY OF WOODSTOCK, 

by Smith, and Gray and Starbird had not yet come. This brief 
sketch, imperfect though it be, will convey some idea of the 
location of the forty-two families which inhabited Plantation 
Number Three at the commencement of the year A. D. 1812. 

Up to 1812, the inhabitants of Number Three had not been 
required to contribute to the burdens of taxation except for 
local purposes, if indeed they were taxed at all. There is no 
record extant showing that previous to this, they ever organized 
for any plantation purposes whatever. Stephen Chase, in his 
journal, speaks of a caucus to choose a delegate to a convention 
to " represent the Plantation of Stover," and this is the only hint 
we have in anything recorded, showing that the plantation was 
ever organized, and this was for political purposes only. But 
the time had come when they were called upon to bear their 
proportional part of the burdens of taxation, as the following 
warrant will show : 

Oxford, ss. 

To Stephen Chase, a principal inhabitant of the Plantation called Number 
Three, in said County, Greeting : 

In obedience to a precept from Henry Rust, Jr., Esq., Treasurer of said 
County, directed to me, the subscriber, one of the Justices of the Peace 
within and for the said County of Oxford, dwelling near said plantation, you 
are hereby required, in the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, to 
notify and warn the inhabitants of said plantation, by law qualified to vote 
for the choice of town officers, to meet at the dwelling house of Noah Curtis, 
in said pl^tation, on Monday, the twenty-third day of March, instant, at ten 
o'clock in the forenoon, to choose a Moderator, a Clerk and also Assessors 
and Collectors for assessing and collecting said plantation's proportion of the 
State and County taxes ordered on said plantation for the current year. 
Hereof fail not, and make return to me of this warrant, with your doings 
thereon and the doings of said plantation in consequence thereof, on or 
before the thirtieth day of March, instant. 

Given under my hand and seal this tenth day of March, in the year of our 
Lord one thousand eight hundred and twelve. 

Levi Hubbard, Justice Peace. 

On the above warrant was the following return : 



, HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 25 

Oxford, ss. Plantation Numiseu THREE,.March 23, 1812. 

Pursuant to the within warrant to me directed, I have notified and warned 
all the inhabitants qualified as within prescribed to meet at the time and 
place, and for the purposes within mentioned. 

Stephen Chase. 

As this is the first recorded meeting of the plantation, the 
proceedings are given entire : 

Plantation No. 3, March 23, 1812. 

At a legal meeting of the inhabitants of Plantation Number Three, duly 
assembled at the dwelling house of Mr. Noah Curtis, in said plantation, on 
Monday, the twenty-third day of March, instant, at 10 o'clock a. m., the 
meeting being opened, the inhabitants proceeded to act on the articles con- 
tained in the warrant, and first made choice of Mr. Stephen Chase for 
Moderator to govern said meeting. 

2. Made choice of Merrill Chase for Plantation Clerk, who was sworn to 

the faithful discharge of his ofiice by me, 

Stephen Chase, Moderator. 

Voted, To choose three assessors for the year ensuing, and made choice 
of Messrs. Cornelius Perkins, Merrill Chase and Jotham Perliam. 

Voted, to choose one Collector of taxes for the year ensuing. 

Voted, To' adjourn this meeting for half an hour. 

The adjournment having expired, the inhabitants met and proceeded to 
make choice of a Collector of taxes for the year ensuing. Made choice of 
Christopher Bryant as a Collector of taxes for the year ensuiiig, who was 
duly sworn by Seth Carpenter, Justice of the Peace. 

Voted, To accept of Mr. Luther Briggs and Mr. Oliver Colburn as sureties 
for Mr. Christopher Bryant, as a Collector of taxes for the ensuing year. 

Voted, To dissolve this meeting. 

A true record. 

Attest : Meeeill Chase, Plantation Clerk. 

The next meeting was held at the same place on the sixth 
day of April of the same year. The warrant, signed by the 
Assessors, was directed to Christopher Bryant, Constable, and 
the meeting was for the purpose of casting the votes of the 
plantation for Governor, Lieut.-Governor, Senators and Council- 
lors, " agreeably to the Constitution of the said Commonwealth." 
The whole number of votes polled was 28. Tor Governor, 



26 HISTOEY OF WOODSTOCK. 

• 

Elbriclge Gerry had 24, and Caleb Strong 4 ; for Lieut.-Gov- 
ernor, William King had 24, and William Phillips 4 ; for Sen- 
ators and Councillors, Eleazer W. Eipley and Jonathan Page 
each had 24, and Ebeuezer Poor and Hon. Matthew Cobb had 
each 24 votes, and Lewis Lothrop had 4 votes. This was prob- 
ably the first time that there was voting for State officers in 
Number Three. 

The third meeting was held at the same place on the 11th 
day of May following the last meeting, and was held for the 
purpose of seeing how much money the plantation would raise 
for the support of schools, for repairing roads and for defraying 
necessary plantation charges. They voted to raise no money 
for the support of schools, none for the repair of roads, and 
twenty-five dollars for plantation charges. 

The fourth meeting of this year was held on the second day 
of November. The warrant notified " all the male inhabitants 
of said plantation being twenty-one years of age, and resident 
in said plantation for the space of one year next preceding, 
having a freehold estate within said plantation of the annual 
income of three pounds or any estate to the value of sixty 
pounds, to assemble at the dwelling house of Merrill Chase, to 
give in tbeir votes for a representative of the people of said 
Commonwealth in the Congress of the United States for the 
Seventh Eastern District." At this meeting eighteen votes 
were thrown, all for Levi Hubbard. 

The fifth meeting was held at the same place as the last, on 
the twelfth day of November, and the warrant read the same, 
only the object of the meeting was to vote for electors for Presi- 
dent and Vice President. The whole number of votes was 
twenty-three, all for John Woodman, of Buxton, Theodore 
Mussey, of Standish, and Henry Rust, Jr., of Norway. 

The next meeting was held on the eighth day of March, 1813. 
At this meeting all the old officers were re-elected, except the 
Collector of taxes. This office was set up at auction and struck 
off to Cornelius Perkins, the lowest bidder. Abraham Walton 



HISTOEY OF WOODSTOCK. 27 

and Morton Curtis were accepted as the Collector's sureties. 
Voted to raise three hundred dollars for the making and repair 
of roads, and to pay one dollar per day for labor on the road 
done before the first day of July, and fonr shillings afterwards. 
Voted not to raise any money for the support of scliools the en- 
suing year. Voted to raise twenty-five dollars for town cliarges. 

The second meeting for this year was Jield on the fifteenth 
day of April. At this meeting Cornelius Perkins, Samuel Bry- 
ant and Luther Whitman were chosen highway surveyors, and 
the plantation voted " to allow seventy-five cents per day for 
oxen before the first day of July, and fifty cents per day after- 
wards, and to allow seventeen cents per day for a cart, and for 
a plough fifty cents." 

The next meeting was held on the fifth day of April, and for 
the purpose of voting for Governor and other State officers. 
The number of votes polled was twenty-four. The fourth 
meeting for this year was holden on the fourteenth day of 
September, and the chief business was " to see if the plantation 
will choose an agent for the purpose of appearing to defend 
against an action concerning the roads, at the Court of Common 
Pleas, holden at Paris in November next." At the meeting, 
Stephen Chase was chosen agent for the purposes aforesaid, and 
the employment of an attorney was left to his discretion. 

The fifth meeting was held on the twenty-second day of 
November, the object being to raise money for making and re- 
pairing roads, and additional for defraying town charges. Four 
hundred dollars were voted for making and repairing roads, and 
forty dollars additional for defraying necessary town charges. 

The next meeting was held on the fifteenth day of March, 
1814. The old officers were all re-elected. Stephen Chase was 
voted five dollars for attending court two terms. Voted to allow 
Capt. Perham and others eight dollars for powder expended at 
muster the eighth day of October last. Voted to raise thirty 
dollars for defraying town charges, twelve hundred dollars for 
making and repairing roads, and one hundred dollars for the sup- 



28 HISTOEY OF WOODSTOCK. 

• 

port of schools. Josiah Dudley, Samuel Bryant and Luther Whit- 
man were chosen highway surveyors. The price per day on the 
road was fixed at one dollar and twenty -five cents, and the taxes 
were struck off to Cornelius Perkins at seven cents on the 
dollar. 

The second meeting for 1814 was held on the fourth day of 
April, " to see if the ||[antation will petition the General Court 
for an act of incorporation," and to attend to some minor busi- 
ness. It was voted to petition the General Court for an act of 
incorporation. It was also voted to accept the School Districts 
as made up by the assessors, and Merrill Chase, Alexander Day, 
John Billings, Cornelius Perkins and John Gray were chosen 
school agents, the first in the plantation. 

The next meeting was holden on the fourth day of April, and 
was the annual election for the choice of Governor and other 
State officers. For Governor, Caleb Strong had one vote and 
Samuel Dexter twenty-eight ; for Lieut.-Governor, William 
Phillips had one and William Gray twenty-eight ; for Senators, 
Daniel Stowell had one and Albion K. Parris had twenty-eight. 
This was during the war and politics run high, Kowse Bisbee 
threw the only whig vote. 

The third meeting this year was held on the seventh day of 
November, and was for the purpose of raising money to pay 
arrears of town charges, and " to see if the town will allow 
Capt. Perham and others their accounts for assisting and pro- 
viding for the militia after being called out to march to Portland." 
At this meeting ninety dollars were raised for defraying arrears 
of town charges, and Capt. Perham was allowed five dollars and 
sixty-seven cents for his account. 

The next meeting was held on the seventh day of November, 
to vote for representative to CongrQjgs. The " male inhabitants 
of said plantation, being twenty-one years of age next preced- 
ing, having a freehold estate within said plantation, of the 
annual income of ten dollars, or any estate to the value of two 
hundred dollars, were notified and warned to meet," &c. At this 



HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 29 

meeting Albion K. Parris had eighteen votes and Samuel A. 
Bradley one. This was the last plantation meeting. Before 
the time for the next meeting for the choice of plantation 
officers, an act of incorporation had been passed, and the next 
meeting was for the acceptance of the charter, and if accepted, 
to act under it. 

'The organized plantation life of Woodstock was short — less 
than three years. A glance at the proceedings of the several 
meetings will show some of the difficulties under which the in- 
habitants labored. They were poor, and money for any purpose, 
except to supply their own wants, could not be raised without 
great sacrifice. They were obliged now to bear the burdens of 
taxation for State and County purposes, and when it came to 
raising money to be expended in the plantation, they reduced it to 
"the smallest possible amount. At the first meeting nothing was 
voted for roads or schools and only twenty-five dollars for all 
purposes. No highway surveyors were chosen. At the first 
meeting in 1813, it was voted to raise three hundred dollars for 
roads bilt still nothing for schools. The results of the first 
year's policy were now beginning to be felt. A suit was brought 
against the plantation for bad roads and they were obliged to 
send an agent to Paris to look after it. The next year they 
raised twelve hundred dollars for making and repairing roads ; 
this was more than twenty -five dollars for each head of a family 
in the plantation. But they had a long stretch of road in pro- 
portion to their numbers, roads that were hilly and liable to 
wash out and easily get out of repair. For two years they 
voted not to raise anything for the support of schools. Of, 
course, there were tliose in the plantation who desired to have 
public schools, or the question would not have been raised, but 
the majority were opposed and it was voted down. The ma- 
jority doubtless felt that bread and clothing for their children 
were of greater importance than education, and many of them 
felt that they were not able to have all three. 

A copy of the first tax assessed in the plantation by virtue 



30 



HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 



of orders from the County Treasurer and the warrant of Levi 
Hubbard, in 1812, the main points of which have already been 
given, will indicate the financial standing of each of the in- 
habitants at that time, and is reproduced here. The sum of 
the State, Town and County tax is set against the name of each 
person, and this includes two polls, the Town and County 20, 
and- the State 27 cents. 



Bisbee, Rowse Total, 


$0.98 


Hammond, Enoch Total, 


$0.96 


Bryant, Solomon 


L06 


Lothrop, Edward " 


0.71 


Bryant, Samuel " 


0.79 


Nason, John " 


0.74 


Briggs, Luther " 


0.56 


Nutting, James " 


0.74 


Bryant, Christopher " 


0.63 


Perkins, Cornelius " 


1.27 


Colburn,'Jerathmel " 


0.90 


Perham, Lemuel, Jr. " 


0.71 


Curtis, Seth " 


0.95 


Perham, Jotham " 


0.92 


■Curtis, Charles " 


0.74 


Perham, Lemuel " 


0.95 


Chase, Stephen " 


0.95 


Band, Lazarus " 


0.90 


Curtis, Noah, Jr; " 


L19 


Rand, David " 


0.47 


Curtis, Morton " 


1.22 


Ricker, David " 


0.96 


Curtis, Noah (no polls) " 


0.64 


Swan, William (2 polls) " 


1.50 


Chase, Merrill " 


1.27 


Swan, Gideon " 


0.95 


Drew, Levi " 


0.58 


Townsend, George " 


1.45 


Dudley, Jos. & Bro. (2 pis.) " 


1.26 


Thurlow, Asa " 


0.47 


Dow, Benaiah " 


1.03 


Thurlow, Amos " 


1.19 


Day, Alexander " 


0.74 


Walton, Jonathan " 


1.19 


Fuller, Consider " 


0.71 


Walton, Abraham " 


1.59 


Felt (Widow) (no poll) 


0.19 


Whitman, Jose'ph " 


1.19 


Fobes, Benj. " 


1.22 


Whitman, Luther " 


1.59 


Hutchinson, Solomon " 


0.97 


W^hitman, Jacob " 


1.54 



The entire tax upon the resident owners (forty-two families) 
was only forty-one dollars and seventy-eight cents, a trifle less 
than one dollar on the average to each family. 
. A glance at this tax list shows that the following persons had 
moved in during the organized plantation period : Josiah 
Churchill, from Buckfield, lived on the hill south-east of Chase's ; 
William Cotton had moved into the east part ; Otis and Thayer 
Townsend had perhaps become of age ; Daniel Dacy had moved 
to the east part, Jerathmel Colburn also, and likewise John 
Lunt ; David Dow, brother of Benaiah, had come in ; Jeremiah 
Felt had become of age ; Richard Green had come ; John Bil- 



HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 31 

lings had come to the' Captain Cole place, since called, and 
Thomas Farrar was in the plantation. James Nutting had 
moved to Greenwood, and perhaps one or two others had moved 
out, but there were now forty-two persons in town liable to be 
taxed, and who were taxed. And now, after less than three 
years of plantation existence, the inhabitants were ambitious to 
be incorporated as a town and assume the additional burdens 
and obligations which such a change would impose upon them. 
Heretofore they had been exempt from the support of paupers, 
which, as a town, they would be obliged to assume, all of 
which they subsequently found out. But there were certain 
privileges they would enjoy as a town which as a plantation 
they could not have, and this probably decided them in favor 
of a town. 

Following is a copy of the petition sent to 'the General Court 
by the assessors, pursuant to a vote of the plantation : 

" To the Honorable Senate and House of Representatives in General Court 
assembled, on the last Wednesday of May, a. d. 181% : 
"The subscribers, assessors of an unincorporated Plantation called Number 
Three, in the County of Oxford, in behalf of said plantation, represent that 
we experience much inconvenience in consequence of being unincorporated. 
We therefore request that said Plantation Number Three, consisting of one- 
half of a township granted to Dummer Academy, and one-half a township 
granted to Gorham Academy, may be incorporated into a town by the name 

of S2)arta, and as in duty bound will ever pray. 

Merrill Chase, 

Cornelius Perkins, 

May 14, 1814. Jotiiam Periiam." 

The petition having been sent to the General Court at Boston, 
was favorably considered, and in due time the following act was 
passed and was signed by the Governor : 

"COMMONAVEALTH of MASSACHUSETTS. 

IN THE TEAR OF OUR LORD ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND FIFTEEN. 

"An act to establish the toion of Woodstock. 

" Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives 
in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, that the half 



32 HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 

townsliip granted to Dummer Academy and the half township granted to 
Gorham Academy, said half townships lying within the County of Oxford, 
be and hereby are established as a town by the name of Woodstock, within 
the following described boundaries, viz : Beginning at the north-west corner 
of the town of Paris, thence south 68)^ degrees east on the northerly line 
of said Paris to the north-west corner of said town ; thence north 14 
degrees west on the line of the town of Sumner, 360 rods : thence north 7 
degrees west, on the line of said Sumner, 480 rods, to a beech tree standing 
in the north-east corner of said Sumner ; thence north 10 degrees west, 320 
rods, to a tree marked ; thence north 68)^ degrees east, 80 rods, to a tree 
marked ; thence north 734 rods to a spruce tree marked and standing 
in the north-east corner of a half township granted to Gorham Academy ; 
thence south 68)^ degrees west, 1664 rods, to a beech tree standing in 
the north-west corner of said grant to Gorham Academy ; thence on 
the same course on the north line of a half township granted to Dummer 
Academy, 3 miles and 8 rods, to the north-west corner of said half township, 
near the westerly side of a pond (Bryant's) ; thence south 30 degrees east 
on the westerly line of said last mentioned half township, 6 miles, to the 
first mentioned bound. And the inhabitants of the said town of Woodstock 
are hereby vested with all the powers and privileges and subject to the like 
duties and requisitions of other towns, according to the Constitution and 
laws of the Commonwealth. 

"Section 2. Be it further enacted that any Justice of the Peace, for the 
County of Oxford, is hereby authorized to issue a warrant directed to a free- 
holder of the said town of Woodstock, requiring of him to notify and 
warn the inhabitants thereof to meet at such convenient time and place as 
shall be expressed in said warrant, for the choice of such officers as towns 
are required to choose at their annual town meetings. 

[Approved Feb. 7, 1815.] " 

It is said that political questions of the day had something 
to do with the refusal of the committee to report the name of 
" Sparta," as prayed for by the assessors, but there is nothing 
on record to show what they were. The reason why they se- 
lected the name of Woodstock is equally obscure, but the sub- 
stitution was generally quite satisfactory to the people of the 
plantation. 

The act having become a law, the inhabitants at once adopted 
measures for carrying it into effect. In pursuance thereof, the 
following warrant was obtained and duly posted : 



HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 33 

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS. 
Oxford, ss. 

To Seth Curtis, of Woodstock, in the County of Oxford, one of the freeholders 
and inhabitants of said town, greeting : 

You are hereby required, in the name of said Commonwealth, to notify 
and warn the inhabitants of said town of Woodstock, qualified by law to 
vote in the choice of town officers, to meet at the dwelling house of Noah 
Curtis, in said town of Woodstock, on Monday, the 20th day of March 
instant, at ten o'clock in the forenoon, for the purpose of making choice of all 
such officers as towns are requii'ed to choose in the months of March or 
April, annually. 

Given under my hand and seal at Paris, this sixth day of March, in the 
year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifteen. 

Albion K. F arris, Justice of the Peace. 

Upon the reverse side of this warrant, is the following return : 

Oxford, ss. Woodstock, March 20, 1815. 

Pursuant to the within warrant, I have notified and warned the male in- 
habitants of said town, qualified to vote in town meeting, to meet at the time 
and place, and for the purposes within mentioned. 

Seth Curtis. 

As this was the first meeting held under the act of incorpora- 
tion, the full proceedings as recorded upon the records of the 
town are here given : 

At a legal meeting of the inhabitants of the town of Woodstock qualified 
to vote in the choice of town, officers, held at the dwelling house of Noah 
Curtis, in said town, on Monday, the 20th day of March, in the year of our 
Lord 1815, at ten o'clock in the forenoon, the meeting being opened by read- 
ing the warrant, the inhabitants proceeded, agreeably to said warrant, to 
make choice of the following officers for the ensuing year, viz : 

1st. Chose Mr. Rowse Bisbee, Moderator, to govern said meeting. 

2d. Chose Stephen Chase, Town Clerk, who was duly sworn to the faithful 
discharge of the duties of his office as the law directs, by me, 

RowsE Bisbee, Moderator, 

3d. Voted, To choose three Selectmen. 

4th. Chose Messrs. Cornelias Perkins. Alexander Day and John Billings, 
Selectmen. Each of said Selectmen, on the same day, personally appeared 
and gave oath to the faithful discharge of the duties of the office of Select- 
man. 

5th. Voted, To choose the Assessors separate from the Selectmen. 
3 



34 HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 

6th. Chose Messrs. John Gray, Jr., Richard Green and Josiah Dudley, 
Assessors, who were duly sworn. 

7th. Chose Mr. Seth Curtis, Treasurer. 

8th. Chose Luther Whitman, Collector of taxes. 

9th. Voted, To accept Solomon Bryant and Seth Curtis, sureties for 
Luther Whitman, Collector of taxes. Said Whitman agreed to collect the 
taxes for five per cent. 

10th. Chose Mr. Luther Whitman, Constable. 

11th. Chose Messrs. Jotham Perham, Solomon Bryant, Jacob Whitman, 
Seth Curtis, Aaron Davis, Jr.; Lazarus Rand and Enoch Hammond, Surveyors 
of Roads. 

12th. Chose Samuel Bryant, Surveyor of Lumber. 

13th. Chose Messrs. Alexander Day and Cornelius Perkins, Fence Viewers. 

14th. Chose Jacob Whitman and Cornelius Perkins, Tything men. 

15th. Chose Mr. Rowse Bisbee, Sealer of Weights and Measures. 

16th. Chose Messrs. Cornelius^Perkins and David Ricker, Field Drivers. 

17th. Chose Mfessrs. Merrill Chase, John Gray, Jr., Josiah Churchill, 
Amos Thurlow and Richard Green, Hogreeves. 

18th. Chose Messrs. Luther Whitman, Josiah Churchill and Josiah 
Dudley, Pound Keepers. 

19th. Chose Messrs. Noah Curtis, Jr., Luther Whitman, Stephen Chase, 
Enoch Hammond and Josiah Dudley, School Committee. 

20th. Chose Mr. Richard Green, Sealer of Moulds for Brick. 

All the above officers, as the record sliows, were 'duly sworn by the Town 
Clerk. 

Voted, to dissolve the meeting. 

A true record. 

Attest : Stephen Chase, Toivn Clerk. 

An abstract of the proceedings of a few subsequent meetings 
is here given, as showing the methods of managing their town 
affairs. 

At a meeting holden April 3, 1815, at the house of Noah 
Curtis, which was on the farm in the Curtis neighborhood, after- 
wards occupied by his son Seth and still later by his grandson 
Adoniram, Eowse Bisbee acting still as Moderator, it was voted 
to raise $700 to be expended on roads and $100 for schools ; it 
was voted not to raise any money to defray town charges. At 
this meeting, accounts against the town were presented and 
allowed as follows : Samuel Bryant, $12.01 for powder, rum 
and whiskey; Seth Curtis, $6.12 for work on the County road 



HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 35 

and for wliiskey. A committee of accounts, composed of the 
Selectmen, was chosen, to audit accounts and report on the 
state of the treasury. The meeting was adjourned to meet 
again at Josiah Churchill's on the sixteenth of May. At the 
adjourned meeting no business was transacted. But a meeting 
was held on the same day, by virtue of a warrant issued May 
2d, at which several roads laid out by the Selectmen were 
accepted, and the Selectmen were instructed to protect the 
public lands from trespass. Solomon Bryant and Cornelius 
Perkins were appointed agents to superintend the working out 
of arrears of highway taxes. Voted to raise SI 10 to defray 
town charges. The assessors were directed to take a new valu- 
ation. Seth Curtis was directed to procure a chest for keeping 
the town books and records. 

At a meeting holden September 19th of the same year, Eowse 
Bisbee, Stephen Chase, Jacob Whitman, Noah Curtis, Jr., Mer- 
rill Chase, David Eicker, Cornelius Perkins, John Billings, Aaron 
Davis, Aaron Davis, Jr., Amos Thurlow, Eichard Green, John 
Gray, Jotham Perham, Josiah Dudley, Consider Fuller and 
Luther Whitman were confirmed as the list of Jurymen. Cor- 
nelius Perkins was the first name drawn out to serve in the 
Court of Common Pleas, to be holden at Paris on the first 
Tuesday of October, 1816. This ended the meetings for the 
year 1815. 

The annual meeting for the election of town officers for 1816, 
was holden at the dwelling house of Josiah Churchill, whose 
place was between the Chases and the Curtis neighborhood, on 
the west part of the farm since owned by Aaron M. Irish. The 
old town officers, with some trifling exceptions, were re-elected. 
It was voted to accept of the School Districts as laid out by the 
Selectmen. This revision is given under the head of Education. 
At this meeting, one hundred and fifty dollars were raised to 
defray town charges, and one hundred and twenty-five dollars 
for the support of schools. At an adjourned meeting holden 
April first, it was voted " to set up the town's poor to the lowest 



36 HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 

bidder." Joseph Clifford and wife were bid off by John Gray 
for $90. It was voted to petition tlie General Court for per- 
mission to sell the public land. Several roads were accepted, 
one " from the town road to Amariah Harrises." Voted to build 
a brick house for the town ammunition. At a meeting held 
May 20th, $100 were raised for the support of the poor; this 
was the first experience of the town in this direction. On the 
same day the town voted on the question of separation from 
Massachusetts, and twenty-three votes were thrown in favor 
and none opposed. In a note the Clerk adds : " The whole 
number of voters in Woodstock was found to be forty-five." 
September 2d of the same year, another meeting was held to 
vote on the question of separation, and thirty-five voted in favor 
and none against. 

At the March meeting, 1817, Samuel Stephens was chosen a 
Selectman ; Stephen Packard bid off the Collectorship at two 
per cent.; $125 were raised to defray town charges, $600 
for the repair of roads and $125 for schools. At a meeting 
held April 7th, Stephen Chase, Josiah Dudley and Merrill 
Chase were chosen a committee to divide the non-resident lands 
into school districts, the organization ^of districts the year previ- 
ous having been made without reference to land. Joseph 
Clifford having died, Luther Whitman bid off his widow at 
ninety cents per week. Lemuel Perhato bid off Sally Warren 
and two children at sixty-nine cents per week. On the second day 
of June, a meeting was held, at which " old Mrs. Lucy Swan " 
was set up at auction and struck off to Samuel Stephens at 
$1.09 per week. Dr. Benjamin Chandler, of Paris, was chosen 
town physician. Voted to sell the personal property of the 
late Joseph Clifford belonging to the town. Voted to accept a 
road from Luther Briggs' to Jacob Twitchell's, according to 
Eowse Bisbee's minutes. Other meetings were held this year, 
but the proceedings were unimportant. 

In 1818, the annual meeting was holden March 2d, at the 
house of Seth Curtis. The town officers were nearly the same 



HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 37 

as the year before. Jonathan Fickett was chosen a tything 
man, Charles B. Brooks, hogreeve, and Caleb Bessee and Wil- 
liam Davis were on th^ Board of School Committee. Eaised 
$100 for town charges, $800 for roads and $150 for schools. 
Lucy Swan was struck off to Samuel Bryant at $1.50 per week. 
At a meeting, March 16th, the Selectmen were directed to 
dispose of the personal effects of Lucy Swan. April 6th, a 
new list of jurors was accepted, as follows : John Billings, 
Jotham Perham, Eowse Bisbee, Merrill Chase, Noah Curtis, Jr., 
Charles Curtis, Luther Whitman, Samuel Stephens, Jacob 
Whitman, Alexander Day, Eichard Green, Seth Curtis, Amos 
Thurlow, Aaron Davis, Aaron Davis, Jr., Stephen Chase, David 
Eicker, Consider Fuller, Jonathan ^Fickett, John Gray, Josiah 
Dudley, William Davis and Cornelius Perkins. Capt. Samuel 
Stephens was chosen agent to contract with Jonathan T. Clif- 
ford for the support of his mother; $150 raised for support of 
«poor. Voted to suspend the law of the General Court, respect- 
ing the killing of certain useful birds at certain seasons of the 
year. September 10 th, $200 was raised to repair the west 
County road, and Cornelius Perkins empowered to expend the 
money. Lemuel Perham was allowed one dollar per week for 
the last five weeks he kept Sally Warren and her two children. 
On the second day of November, a meeting was called at the 
house of Stephen Chase to vote for a member of Congress, but 
no one came to vote. 

The March meeting in 1819 was held at the house of Josiah 
Churchill. The old town officers were generally re-elected. 
Stephen Packard again bid off the taxes. Moses Dudley, Joel 
Perham and Jonathan Cole were chosen hogreeves, and Jere- 
miah Felt a highway surveyor. Eaised for town charges $100, 
for schools $180, and for repairs of roads $1000. At a meeting 
holden April 5th, Cornelius Perkins, Stephen Chase and Samuel 
Stephens were chosen a committee to revise and re-district the 
school districts. April 26th, Susannah Clifford was set up at 
auctioh and bid off by Joel Perham at sixty-nine cents per week. 



38 HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 

Voted to accept the road from Consider Fuller's to Charles B. 
Brook's. May 15th, it was " Voted that the inhabitants of this 
town consider it expedient that measures be taken by the Legis- 
lature of the Commonwealth to effect, as soon as may be, a 
separation of the District of Maine from Massachusetts." At a 
meeting holden July 26th, it was voted, forty to none, in favor of 
separation from Massachusetts. On the third Monday in Sep- 
tember, Cornelius Perkins was chosen a delegate to the conven- 
tion called to frame a constitution for the new State of Mame. 
December the 3d, the town of Woodstock voted, twenty-seven 
against two, in favor of the new Constitution of Maine. 

At the March meeting for 1S20, the old officers were elected, 
except that Jonathan Cole bid off the taxes and was elected 
constable. Money raised for town charges $200, schools $180, 
roads $800. Among the hogreeves chosen this year were John 
E. Briggs, Daniel Curtis, Artemas Felt, Jonathan Billings an(i 
Oliver Swan. It is fair to presume that the above were recently 
married men, as this office was generally bestowed upon such. 
The vote of the Committee on School Districts was accepted, 
and it was voted to annul all former votes respecting School 
Districts. This new districting may be found in the chapter on 
Education. At a meeting held the 3d day of April, it was 
voted to set off Lemuel Perliam from the third to the fourth 
School District. Daniel Dacy was allowed fifty cents per week 
for the support of Lazarus Warren, son of George Warren. 
The Selectmen were instructed to petition the Legislature of 
Maine to abolish the Court of Common Pleas and establish 
some other Court. October 2 2d, a meeting was held at the 
house of Stephen Chase, when it was voted to repair the bridge 
at Capt. Stephens' mill. Widow Clifford was set up at auction 
and bid off by Josiah Dudley. One hundred dollars additional 
were raised for the support of the poor. At a meeting holden 
November 6th, it was voted to repair the damage to roads 
caused by the late freshet, and Cornelius Perkins, Josiah Dudley, 



HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 39 

Jotham Perham and Jonathan Cole were chosen agents to 
superintend the work m their several districts. 

These few extracts will give a good idea of the doings of the 
town in its corporate capacity, from the date of its incorpora- 
tion down to and including the year 1820. Maine had now 
become an independent State, a consummation which the in- 
habitants of Woodstock had ever wished and unanimously voted 
for. A glance at these records also shows the peculiar disad- 
vantages under which the town then labored, and it may be 
added that it has continued to labor under similar difficulties 
ever since. The town has, and then had, long stretches of road 
built over steep hills, which in summer were badly washed by 
showers and storms, and in the spring still worse by the melt- 
ing of the snows. The expenses for the repair of roads and for 
building new up to this time had been more than double that 
of all other town expenses ; and even then the roads were in- 
dicted and the inhabitants forced to appear at Paris, through 
their agents, to defend themselves. To keep the long stretches 
of road in repair and save litigation was a great expense and a 
continual source of care and anxiety to the inhabitants. 

The voting population had steadly increased during these six 
years of town existence, both by new comers from other towns 
and by young men coming of age. At the commencement of 
the year 1820, there were sixty-two families in town. Some 
of the new families are enumerated below. Samuel Stephens 
had moved here from Paris and bought the Bisbee mill, which 
was afterwards known as the Capt. Stephens mill. James 
Nutting, who purchased the mill of Bisbee near the close of 
1812, had moved to Greenwood, and Bisbee had bought out 
John Nason and occupied there. George Berry was here only 
a short time, and then moved to Hartford ; he was with or near 
the Swans. Thomas R Carman had married a daughter of 
Solomon Bryant and lived in the vicinity of his wife's father. 
Wm. Swan, Jr., John E. Briggs and Artemas Felt had become 
of age and were married. These were in the first School Dis- 



40 HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 

trict, according to the districting of that year. In the second 
district, the new comers were Abner Dolloff, who remained only 
a few years, Wm. E. and Charles B. Brooks, sons of Dr. Peter, 
who had come here from Poland, Jonathan Fickett, who lived 
on the Nute place, Aaron and Aaron Davis, Jr., and Daniel 
Curtis, who had become of age. In the third d* trict, there were 
Seneca Landers, who came here from Norway, Jonathan Cole, 
John Billings, Caleb Bessee and Cyprian Bowker, all from Paris, 
and Joel Perham, who had married and lived in the Perham 
neighborhood. In the fourth district, the only new comers were 
Samuel Durell and William Davis. Samuel Dunham had be- 
come of age. In the new fifth district were Josiah and Moses 
Dudley, Azariah Howard and John Lunt as new names. 
. Christopher Bryant, one of the two first settlers, had moved into 
Greenwood. During these six years this town, in common with 
all the interior towns of the State, suffered many hardships and 
privations. The year 1816 was exceptionally cold for this lati- 
tude. There was frost every month in the year, and nothing 
but the hardier cereal grains were ripened. The corn and 
potato crops were a total failure, and as these crops had been and 
still were the main dependence, their total loss fell heavily upon 
this people. Winter set in early and with unusual severity, 
and there were fearful forebodings in almost every household. 
The prudent and thrifty had scarcely enough to supply their 
own families, and what were the thriftless, which are found in 
every town, to do ? Of course there was much suffering, but 
somehow the inhabitants of Woodstock managed to struggle 
through. Another cause of serious discomfort and great loss 
this year was the unusual prevalence of fires. The season, 
though cold, was extremely dry, and much of the wood and 
nearly all the valuable timber in town were destroyed. Charles 
Curtis, who was then living on part of what is now the John 
Day farm, had some " piles " to burn which he set on fire. 
This fire did a great amount of damage. It swept through woods 
and fields, and in its course destroyed all of Solomon Bryant's 



HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 41 

hay, which was stacked near his buildings. The house was 
saved by great effort. Through the Perham neighborhood and 
in other parts of the town, during this season, the forest fires 
raged with terrific violence, the roads being for several days 
impassable. So extensive were these fires that ordinary print 
could be read by their light in almost any part of the town at 
midnight, and the summits of the blazing mountains could be 
seen far away. These fires not only destroyed the wood and 
timber, but in many places the surface soil was charred and 
greatly damaged by the intense heat. Few buildings were 
burned and no lives lost, but many stories of hair breadth 
escapes have come down to us from those who were eye-wit- 
nesses, and who shared in the danger. In 1821, the summer 
of which was very dry, fires 'again ran through the town, de- 
str^ing mucii young wood and burning several farm buildings. 
The town did not recover from these losses for many years, 
and some portions were seriously and permanently injured for 
agricultural purposes by the burning off of the soil. The 
charred remains of the huge trees still tell the story of the 
great fire, and the large areas which once were covered with 
valuable forest wood, now produce nothing but an inferior 
second growth. 

Michael Little, shortly after his purchase of the grant to 
Dummer Academy (west part of Woodstock), sold a consid- 
erable portion of it to Ebenezer March, Esq., of Newbury, Mass. 
The agents of Mr. March to make sales and look after his in- 
terests in the town, were Jairus Shaw, of Paris, and Stephen 
Ghase, of Woodstock. As showing the condition of the inhab- 
itants, or some of them, with reference to their lands in 1819, 
and two years after, extracts are here made from letters sent by 
Mr. Chase to Mr. March : 

" Woodstock, February 20, 1819. 
"Eben. March, Esq. 

"Bear Sir : — Agreeably to your request, we have ascertained your taxes 
in the town of Woodstock for the year 1818. Non-resident lands stand on 
the valuation at $2 per acre, without regard to good or bad. * » * * » 



42 HISTOKY OF WOODSTOCK. 

Respecting money matters, we have collected but little yet. Seth Curtis has 
taken up his small note. We believe that C. Curtis, M. Chase and R. Bisbee, 
and some others, will exert themselves. We receive no encouragement from 
J. Billings, C. Bessee or S. Bryant, at present, but shall do the best we can. 
Asa Thurlo wishes to relinquish his land ; he says he has no expecta- 
tion that he will ever be able to pay for it. We cannot state to you the par- 
ticulars of what he has done until the snow goes off, but we fear the land 
will not be much more salable for what he has done. He has put no build- 
ings on the lot and has never lived on it. We have sold lot No. 23 to John 
R. Briggs, for |275 ; he is a minor and the writings are made to his father, 
with an agreement to exchange them when John R. shall become of age, 
which will be next November. We have also sold the west half of 22 to 
Abner Dolloff, for $150. No. 34, west half, is engaged to Gideon Swan. We 
think the situation of 22 and 34 justifies dividing them. Seneca Landers 
has not made application for writings. We know nothing of his being in 
toVn since we wrote you last. We believe, however, that he depends on the 
land, as he made preparations for building last fall. Charles Curtis wishes 
for a deed of his land ; he says he is certain of paying all except fifty 
dollars this season. ^ 

" We have exerted ourselves to save your pine timber, and, by reason of 
our being so near, we think nothing so much has been taken in a clandestine 
manner as usual. It is frequently found necessary by proprietors and their 
agents in adjoining towns, to prosecute trespassers on pine timber, and 
there is a probability that we may be under the necessity of pursuing the 

same course. 

• Stephen Chase et al." 

• 

" Woodstock, February 1, 1821. 
" Eben. March, Esq. 

"Dear Sir : — We are very sorry that we are not able to forward to you 

any money in this letter, and extremely sorry to state the little prospect we 

have of any large payments this season. Money with us is the most scarce 

it has ever been since the town has been settled. Produce of all kinds is 

plenty, but will command but a very small price in ready cash. It is the 

general cry, ' What can we do ? ' * * * * Mr. Jonathan Eickett has 

sold his lot to a son-in-law by the name of Samuel Nute, who says he can 

pay the money down, but wishes to have the deed when he pays the money. 

Mr. Fickett's lot is number 44. Mr. Billings and Mr. Bessee will quit their 

lands. We are now offering their lots for sale. We believe some others 

must quit if they are driven up. We cannot think it will be for your interest 

to sue all your debtors, and it is a disagreeable task for us to single out 

individuals. If you think it would be proper to be more severe with those 

who have deeds of their lands than others, we should be glad to have your 

mind upon it. . * * * * We have sold lot No. 31 to Simeon Dunn and 



HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 43 

Zebedee Pralt. We engaged Gore A to Merrill Chase, Jr., for $500 ; writings 
are not yet made, and there is some prospect that he will not have the whole 
Gore. We sold last week lot 78 for $275, and lot No. 79 for §250, to Barthol- 
omew Cushman and Calvin Jackson. 

Stephen Chase." 



"Woodstock, April 17, 1821. 

" Bespected Sir : — We have had a long and tedious winter, and hay is very 

scarce and much corn has been given to cattle. It will follow that bread 

will be scarce with us this season. Money remains very scarce. We have 

recently visited all your debtors and urged the necessity of payment, but 

have obtained not a- single dollar. Every one except Billings and Bessee, 

who do not expect to pay for their lands, express an anxious desire to pay 

you, and we are not out of hopes that they will, but the prospect of present 

payment is small. Bisbee is about exchanging his farm for a smaller; if he 

should, we hope the boot will help you to some pay. Seneca Landers and 

Samuel Bryant have both promised to come to settlement this spring. It 

does not appear that they are making the lots on which they live any worse. 

Land is not half as salable with improvements on it as it is in the state of 

nature. We believe that Esquire Little is not more fortunate, either in sales 

or collections, than we are.* We add a list of lots which remain unsold : 

Nos. 4, 6, 7, 8, 18, }i 19, 22, 23, 29, 34, 38, 39, 40, 45, 47, 49>^, 52, G7, 08, 72, 

85, 88, 91, 92. 

Stephen Chase." 

Much more of the same sort might be added, but it would 
be mainly repetition. One or two of the letters written by 
Mr. March will show how his agents were pressed : 

• " Newbury, November 27, 1819. 

"Gents : — I must again request you to give me some account of your sales 
and other circumstances relating to my interest in Woodstock. I have ever 
felt a reluctance to subjecting my debtors to costs by bringing suits at law 
against them, but I feel it a duty to my family to require a speedy fulfillment 
of their contracts. I suppose some of them are better able than others, but 
as I am not sufficiently acquainted with their disposition and circumstances, 
I cannot discriminate ; it is, therefore, my request that you engage some 
respectable attorney at law to bring suits upon all the notes which are be- 
come payable and due, or will be so before the next sitting of your Court of 
Common Pleas, excepting where they will give good assurance that they will 
pay in the month of March next ; you will let my debtors know of the above 
directions. When you deliver the notes to my Attorney, which need not be 
long before Court, you will take his receipt for them. I shall expect a letter 

* MerriU Chase was the agent of Mr. Little, but no record of his doings remain. 



44 HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 

from you as soon as you receive this, complying with my request in several 
previous letters, and I must request you, gentlemen, as my friends, to give 
me, with the utmost freedom, your opinion of the above proposed meas- 
ures. Eben. March." 



" Newbury, January 26, 1820. 

" Gentlemen : — I received yours of the twenty-ninth of December last, in- 
closing |25. This small sum and the statement you make respecting former 
purchasers, looks very discouraging. *****! fear that a number 
of our settlers are indolent and improvident, and do not employ their women 
and children in various little matters which would make great savings. 
When I saw you last, you mentioned the multitude of bees in your woods ; 
and having often heard that the land in Woodstock, especially the westerly 
half, is a good soil and equal to any in the vicinity, I have supposed it lit- 
erally a " land flowing with milk and honey," but I find that some persons, 
from what motive I know not, are endeavoring to depreciate the town of 
Woodstock, I wish you to give me its just character. I requested you, in a 
former letter, to give me an account of your inhabitants and of your live 

stock ; I should like it. 

"Eben. March." 



"Newbury, July 15, 1824. 
"Stephen Chase, Esq. 

" I received yours of January 22. 1824, in due time, but you having men- 
tioned that you contemplated a journey to the eastward — one that may be 
a long one — I have delayed writing. Looking back to the copies of the letters 
I have wrote to you, I find that one enclosed a letter to my friend Major 
Kobinson, and one sent by Josiah Little, Esq., are missing. I do not, how- 
ever, consider the loss of any great importance. Your last letter gives me 
such a gloomy prospect respecting my interests in Woodstock, that I have 
no encouragement to take coercive measures. I am, however, glad that you 
have put some of their notes to suit. When you write again you will inform 
me who you have employed as an attorney. I hope you attached enough to 
pay cost. I think no honest man will object to interest annually. I should 
be glad if you can obtain something from Samuel Bryant. I don't know 
what he gave for his land, as it was sold to Briggs. I think it wi'ong that 
Billings should have been living on me for eight or ten years, when I told 
him he must quit the lot. I have been negotiating a plan which relieves my 
real estate in this town from every embarrassment, but requires me to mort- 
gage all my unsold lots in Woodstock, including the Billings lot 76, to Wm. 
B. Bannister and others. I want to know how your suits terminate. If 
coercion by the civil laws has become dangerous, you must be an unhappy 
people, and fit subjects for some exemplary punishment. I hope, however, 



HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 45 

there will be found some few righteous persons in the town of Woodstock. 

Could you now feel the infirmities of seventy-nine years, you will permit my 

plea of inability to attend writing any more. 

Eben'r March." 
i 

Sometime during the year 1821, Mr. March .sold a portion of 
his Wooodstock lands to William Sawyer, of Boston. Mr. 
Chase acted as agent for Mr. Sawyer, and a couple of the letters 
of the latter to Mr. Chase may appropriately come in here. 

"Boston, November 2, 1821. 
" Mr. Stephen Chase. 

"Dear Sir : — I have received, from E. Mosely, Esq., Mr. March's deed to me, 
sales recorded. Being in Newbury a few days ago, Judge March informed 
me that you would remain in Woodstock till next season, when I propose 
making a journey to that country. In the meantime, my object is to request 
your attention, during the remainder of your residence, to what has become 
my property, and to inform me of any proposals that may be made for 
purchase, and to do in general whatever is needful for the due prevention of 
trespass, for which service I expect to allow you for your time and trouble, 
as you have been in the habit of receiving from Judge March. I have a very 
good copy of the survey of the land from March, and can refer immediately 
to any lot or number. Some proposal-s I understood had been made for 
Gore A. If you should leave that country, or if you are fully decided to 
leave, I wish you to mention to me the names of one or more whom you 
think would be willing and are suitable persons to act for me in the capacity 
of agent hereafter, and who resides near the said location. If it is agreeable 
to you to continue to act as above requested, please inform me by letter at 
Boston. I am your ob't, 

Wm. Sawyer." 



" Boston, January 13, 1823. 
" Stephen Chase, Esq. 

"Dear Sir : — I duly received your favor of the 30th November last, and 
notice the contents. I am very well satisfied as far as you have proceeded, 
and I hope you will be able to make additional sales of the lots. You know 
so well how desirous I am to dispose of that landed property that it is un- 
necessary for me to press you farther on the subject. I am still of the same 
opinion as when we discussed the subject so fully. If you can but find the 
right sort of purchasers, ddfc't part with them for a little matter. I am glad 
to find provision is made, in your agreement with Bisbee, for the taxes next 
year. I shall always be glad to hear from you when you find it useful and 
convenient to write. I formed, during my journey in Maine last summer, 
a much higher idea of that State, as to the cultivation, improvement aud the 



46 HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 

character of the population, than I had ever before conceived. It will cer- 
* taiuly, at no distant period, be a povrerful, populous and thriving State, 
although non-resident land holders may find their estates unprofitable. Ac- 
cept my sincere wishes for your health and the welfare of your family. 

" With esteem, your obt., 

Wm. Sawyer." 

The following letter to Mr. Chase, would indicate that another 

party had become interested in Woodstock lands, perhaps as a 

prospective purchaser. 

" Boston, January 1, 1823. 
" Stephen Chase, Esq. 

"Sir : — Having occasion for a friend in Woodstock, E. Lincoln, Esq., has 
favored me with your name. I want to ascertain the quality of the lots of 
land in Woodstock belonging to Wm. Sawyer, Esq. If you will have the 
goodness to look at the plan of the township, which you will no doubt find 
in possession of the Town Clerk, and see the relative situation of those lots, 
and by enquiry or otherwise, inform me of their quality, growth of wood, 
situation as to County roads, kinds of soil, hilly or rocky, &c., you will render 
me the service required, for which trouble I shall be happy to compensate 
you. If you know of any lots of good quality for sale, you will please men- 
tion quantity, price, &c. Please let' me hear from you very soon. 

" With esteem, youx's, 

Sam. Tobey." 

» 

Mr. Chase having had the Eastern fever for some time, and 
having notified Mr. Sawyer of his proposed removal, received 
the following in reply : 

" Boston, November 5, 1824. 
"To Stephen Chase, Esq. 

"Dear Sir : — I have received your letter of the 7th ult., and noted the 

contents. I consent that you shall transfer tlie agency for me to Thomas 

Crocker, Esq., of Paris, if Mr. Emery, should he still reside in Paris, agrees 

with you in opinion ; if he is not there, I shall accede to your judgment. I 

shall be ready to allow the usual terms — such a commission on sales as will 

be reasonable and satisfactory to Mr. Crocker, and as is customary in like 

cases. I wish that the land and the sales thereof, and the interest on notes 

due, shall be first applied to expenses thereon, that I shall not be called on 

for cash. It will be perhaps needful that when you leave you should return 

me your power of attorney, and that I shouldlfcive you a new one to Mr. 

Crocker. You will be so good as to furnish him with every information and 

document necessary for his guidance, and above all, impress upon him the 

desire I have to hasten the sales, even at reduced prices, avoiding all dealings 

with doubtful and unsafe characters. It is expensive making journeys, but 



HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 47 

it is very possible I might meet Mr. Crocker or yourself, if necessary, when 
his business calls him to Portland, or it may sometimes bring him to Boston. 
All this you will let me know by letter. If you absolutely decide to leave 
Woodstock, I suppose the sooner the arrangements are made with Mr. 
Crocker the better. I am, with regard, your friend, 

Wm. Sawyer." 

November 20, 1824, Mr. March wrote to Mr. Chase that as 
he (Chase) had determined to leave Woodstock, he (March) 
must look up another agent, and says : " I am so little ac- 
quainted with the people of Woodstock and vicinity that I 
know not who to apply to, and I can think of no one except 
Edward Little, of Portland, and he writes me that he has so 
much business to do for his father that he shall not be able to 
give that attention to mine 'that it requires." It appears, how- 
ever, that Mr. Little did subsequently act as agent for Mr. 
March. Judge March and also Mr. Sawyer made journeys to 
Paris in connection with Woodstock lands, and Mr. Bannister, 
to whom Mr. March mortgaged tlj^ land, once came to Wood- 
stock. The wild lands in this town changed hands many 
tunes before they were finally sold to settlers. In one of his 
letters to Mr. Chase, Mr. March says that Mr. Alexander Green- 
wood has gone to th% " eastward," * and wishes his address that 
he may write him and get his opinion as to the value of a certain 
seven hundred acres. The taxes on proprietors' lands were not 
promptly paid, and they were frequently sold by the Collector. 
In one of his letters Mr. March complains that Gore 37 and west 
half of lot 12, had been sold by Cornelius Perkins and bid off 
by Edward Little. Luther, and afterwards his son, A. M. Whit- 
man, was agent for Thomas and Edward Hale, of Newburyport, 
into whose hands some of the Woodstock lands had come, through 
his wife, who was Alice Little, daughter of Josiali, and the last 
were not sold by him until about the year 1852. These last pro- 
prietors' lots were situated between Bryant's Pond Village and 



♦Mr. Greenwood moved to Monson, where he continued his occupation of surveyor 
of wild lands. While eating his dinner in the woods one day, a dry stub of a tree fell 
upon him, kUling him instantly. 



48 HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 

North Alder Eiver Pond, along the new road that leads to Locke's 
Mills. Josiah Little, of Newbury, obtained a few lots of Wood- 
stock lands, probably from his son Michael, the original proprietor. 
Edward Little, then of Portland, was his agent, and in a letter 
to Stephen Chase, dated July 11, 1820, he offered to sell lots 
number 62 and 71, for $350 each. These are the lots upon 
which the village of Bryant's Pond is mainly situated. The 
most part of 71 was purchased about the year 1850, by Charles- 
T. Chase. The letters here produced may possess no special 
interest to the average reader, but they go to help make up the 
early liistory of the town, and convey information with regard 
to early transactions in our wild lands which at this day could 
have been obtained from no other source. Mr. March was 
doubtless deceived as to the character and value of his pur- 
chase, and perhaps all the early proprietors were. There was 
much speculation at that time in what Massachusetts people 
called "Eastern lands," ai^l upon paper all townships ap- 
peared the same ; as stated by Mr. Chase in one of his letters, 
there was no difference, in the price asked, between a good 
settling township and a poor one. For the preservation of the 
correspondence here referred to, credit 13 due to Mr. Stephen 
Chase, among whose effects they were found, after his decease 
at his eastern home in Lincoln, and to his sons, who thought- 
fully preserved them after their father's death. 

In addition to other burdens whicli the inhabitants of Wood- 
stock were called upon to bear — and it proved no easy one — was 
the support of the poor within the town. It was many years 
before a town farm was provided, and the paupers were gen- 
erally set up at auction at the time of the March meeting, and 
struck off to the lowest bidder. Joseph Clifford died in the 
spring of 1816, and an inventory of his effects was taken 
April 2d of that year. A copy of this inventory, as then made 
out, may be of interest to some, after nearly seventy years. 
The following is a verbatim copy : 



HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 49 

"A memmarandum of the Goods of Mr. Joseph Clifford, of "Woodstock, 
aken the second day of April, a. d. 1816 : 

" 1 fether Bead, 6 sheats of a poor Quality, 1 Wolen Bead Blanket, 2 cover- 
leads, 2 pillers, 1 Bolster, 2 under Beads, 1 New Calico Bead spread, 1 covered 
trunk, 1 squar chist, 1 meat tub, 1 Bed Stead, 1 cloase basket, 1 amberill, 1 
Read Cloak, 1 Linen wheel, 1 wool do. do., 1 pair of cards, 2 six squar 
windows, 1 ax, 1 fro, 1 shave, 1 hay fork, 3 puter Basins, 3 forks, 2 knives, 3 
spoons, 1 Table, 3 chars, 1 old shovel, 1 tin pan, 1 large flower Box, 1 spider, 
1 pot, 1 cittell, 1 cive, 1 tea cittell, 1 tin Basin, 3 pales, 3 small shugar boxes, 
1 flower Barren, 1 corn Basket, 1 Hoe, 1 mortar, 1 scythe, set of irons, 1 Pair 
stillyards, 2 arthen Platters, 2 Decanters, 1 Bottell, 2 plates, 1 puter plate, 
1 arthen Poriger, 1 hammer. Pinchers and Nippers, 1 ax." 

Whenever Mrs. Clifford was bid off, the person taking her 
took her effects as given above, giving a receipt to the town 
therefor, and promising to account for them at the end of the 
year, " except the natural wear." The same schedule was copied 
year after year, and the " new calico bed spread " always re- 
mained new as long as Mrs. Clifford lived. Her son, Jonathan 
T. Clifford, who was the first settler on the Gore, took his 
mother in 1818, to keep for three years, and gave the following 
bond for her maintenance : 

" Know all men by these presents, that I, Jonathan T. Clifford, of a Gore 
of Land called Hamlin's Grant, in the County of Oxford and Commonwealth 
of Massachusetts, am held and firmly bound unto Samuel Stephens, Stephen 
Chase and Cornelius Perkins, Overseers of the Poor for the town of Wood- 
stock, or their successors in that ofl&ce, in the sum of one hundred and eighty 
dollars, to which payment, well and truly to be made, I bind myself, my heirs, 
executors and administrators finnly by these presents. Sealed with my seal 
this seventh day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred 
and eighteen. 

" Now the condition of this obligation is such that whereas the above 
named Jonathan T. Clifford hath taken the widow Susanna P. Clifford, a 
town pauper, to support for bed and board, in health and sickness, for the 
term of three years, if the said Jonathan T. Clifford does well and truly 
provide for and support the said Susanna P. Clifford and pay all Doctor's 
bills for the term of three years from the date thereof, then this obligation 
to be void and of no effect, otherwise to remain in full force and virtue. 

" Signed, sealed and delivered in presence of 
Luther Whitman, 

Noah Curtis, Jr. Jonathan T. Clifford." 

4 



50 HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 

To aid the Eand family, living in the east part of the town, 
the overseers of the poor of Woodstock for several years loaned 
them a lot of land under certain specified conditions; the fol- 
lowing is the form of lease used : 

" This indenture, made the second day of May, in the year of our Lord 
one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, witnesseth : that Cornelius Perkins, 
John Billings and Alexander Day, all of AVoodstock, in the County of Ox- 
ford, as Selectmen of said town, do hereby lease, demise and let unto Betsey 
Eand and David Rand, both of said Woodstock, yeomen, a certain lot of 
land lying in said Woodstock, being lot numbered three in that part of said 
town which was granted to Gorham Academy, they, the said Betsey Eand 
and David Eand, agreeing to clear and put into grass all of said lot which 
they have or may fall on the same, said lot having been drawn to the minis- 
teri&,l right in said town; to hold for the term of one year from the first day 
of April last, yielding and paying therefor the rent of one dollar ; and the 
said the lessees do promise to pay the said rent in cash, to quit and deliver 
up the premises to the lessors, or their attorney, peaceably and quietly, at 
the end of the term, in as good order and condition, reasonable use and wear- 
ing thereof excepted, as the same now are or may be put into by the said 
lessors, and to pay all taxes and duties levied or to be levied on thereon 
during the term, and for such further time as the lessees may hold the same, 
and not make nor suffer any waste thei-eof, and that the lessors may enter 
to view and make improvements, and to expel the lessees if they shall fail 
to pay the rent as aforesaid, or make or suffer any strip or waste thereof. 
" In presence of 
David Eicker, Cornelius Perkins, [l. s.J 

JosiAH Dudley, Alexander Day, [l. s.] 

Silas Billings, John Billings, [l. s.] 

Thayer Townsend, David Eand, [l. s.] 

Eachel Townsend, Betsey Eand, [l. s.] " 

In 1825, Stephen Chase moved from Woodstock to Lincoln, 
on the Penobscot Eiver. He had contemplated going for four 
or five years, but was delayed in his departure from various 
causes, not the least of which was his connection with the sale 
of Woodstock lands as agent for various proprietors. Several 
families moved from Paris to Lincoln about the same time. It 
• was a much better farming township than Woodstock, and Mr. 
Chase took up a lot which made an excellent farm. The re- 
moval of Mr. Cliase from Woodstock was a great loss to the 
town. From his first arrival in 1802, he had been its foremost 



HISTOKY OF WOODSTOCK. 51 

man. He was a leader in spiritual as well as in temporal 
affairs, and was many years deacon of the Baptist church in 
Paris. From the date of the first plantation organization in 
1812, to the time of his removal, he was ever in town business. 
He was the first Justice of the Peace in town, and the first 
member of the Legislature from Woodstock. He also held the 
agencies of most of the proprietors of Woodstock lands. The 
letters to him show that they had the utmost confidence in his 
integrity and business^ capacity, and expressed great regret that 
he should leave town while their affairs were unsettled. His 
position as agent for the lands occupied by the settlers and un- 
paid for, was a delicate and in some respects disagreeable one, 
but it enabled him to assist them, and the fact that, while he 
performed his duties to the satisfaction of the proprietors, he 
retained the respect and confidence of his townsmen, attest to 
the judicious and impartial manner in which he performed his 
duties. Three of his daughters married and remained in Wood- 
stock, namely, the wives of Benj. Davis, Simon Picket and Daniel 
Curtis, but his sons went with him, and none of of his descend- 
ants in the male line have since lived here. The name of 
Stephen Chase is so closely connected and interwoven with all 
the affairs of this town during its first quarter of a century, that 
now, when he is about to drop out and disappear, some recogni- 
tion of his faithful services seems to be proper. He lived here 
during the years when the settlers were struggling for existence, 
and went away before prosperity had fully come, though the 
affairs of the town, in many respects, had much improved. He 
worked hard, and fared hard himself, as the extracts from his 
journal show ; but, in addition to his own burdens, he took 
upon himself and assisted in bearing those of the plantation. 
He has long since finished his earthly career, and left to his 
posterity the legacy of a well spent life. 

It was in 1825 that John Gray, Jr., and John Starbird, with 
their estates, lots number six and seven, east part, according to 
Smith's survey, were set off from this town to Paris. They 



52 HISTOKT OF WOODSTOCK. 

could be better accommodated in regard to schools, and their 
business relations were all with Paris. Other changes in the 
town lines from the original survey may as well be stated here. 
In 1827, the estate of Daniel Curtis was set off from Paris and 
annexed to Woodstock. In 1853, James Euss, with his estate, 
consisting of one and one-half lots, was set off from Milton 
Plantation and annexed to Woodstock. In 1873, Hamlin's 
Gore was annexed to Woodstock. In 1880, Caleb Puller, who 
resided on a portion of the land formerly set off from Paris, was 
annexed to Paris. Superior school privileges and close business 
relations with West Paris were the chief reasons assigned. 

The general happenings in Woodstock for a long number of 
years, from 1825 to 1850, were not of special importance, and 
the annals of the town, if fully reported, would possess but 
little interest. The financial condition of the population, as a 
whole, did not materially improve for a long time. After Mr. 
Crocker took the agency for the wild lands in the west part of 
the town, the indebtedness of the inhabitants was gradually 
transferred from Boston and Newbury to Paris Hill. In this 
village were many wealthy men, among whom were the Eawsons, 
Cushmans, Cummingses, Andrews and Kittredges, who had 
money to loan on real estate, and held mortgages on many 
farms in Woodstock and the adjoining towns. They charged 
high rates of interest which must be compounded every year, 
and security for double, at least, the money loaned. This in- 
terest was the undying worm to many struggling farmers, and 
proved the financial ruin of not a few. The curse of strong 
drink also kept many poor who otherwise would have been able 
to have emancipated themselves from the thralldom of the 
usurer. It should not be understood that all the people of 
Woodstock were given to drink, or badly in debt, for there 
were prudent farmers in town from the beginning who became 
thrifty, and subsequently forehanded ; but, on the other hand, 
there were many, and perhaps a majority, of the farmers in 
town who, from various causes, including those just mentioned, 



HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 53 

were poor. It was not until the temperance reform, which 
began first among the young men and women of the town, who 
became active workers, and were subsequently re-enforced by ' 
the great Washingtonian movement, whicli reached another 
class, that real and substantial financial progress began to be 
made. A more extended notice of this movement may be found 
in another place. Suffice it to say here, that the influence of this 
reform began to be manifest in a short time in improved farm 
buildings, in better cultivation of the soil, in more and better 
farm stock, and, best of all, in an emancipation from that evil 
which, like a bird of ill omen, had brooded over the town for 
many a year. General prosperity followed in the wake of this 
movement. Ardent spirits were, after a few years, banished from 
almost every house ; there was a manifest improvement in morality 
and in religious feeling and thought. Gradually, long accumu- 
lating debts were liquidated, and farms which for many years 
* had been under the ban of a mortgage, became again the prop- 
erty of the occupants. The statement is no exaggeration, that 
in the year 1848, fifty years after the first settlement was made, 
there was no town in the County more independent than the 
town of Woodstock. There were no very wealthy men, and 
very few so poor that they could not get a good and comfort- 
able living by their own unaided efforts. 

In 18.37, near the close of President Jackson's second and 
last term, there was found to be a considerable sum of money 
in the United States Treasury, which was not needed for the 
purpose of government. It was finally determined to divide it 
among the towns in the United States, according to the popula- 
tion. There was much controversy in most towns respecting 
the disposal of this money. Some were in favor of converting 
it into an educational fund, the income only to be used, while 
others advocated putting it into the treasury for the general 
purposes of the town. But there was a strong sentiment in 
almost every town in favor of dividing it among the families, 
and in most cases this proposition prevailed. It did here, each 



54 HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 

fiead of a family being required to give a note, with sureties, for 
the amount received, that the money might be forthcoming in 
case there should be a demand for it. These notes were placed 
in the hands of the town treasurer, and in 1839 the town of 
Woodstock voted that " the treasurer be authorized to destroy 
the notes given for the surplus revenue," and they were accord- 
ingly burned. The sum received was one dollar and sixty-six 
and one-third cents apiece, for men, women and children. 

For many years after the town was settled, the main thorough- 
fare from Kumford to Paris was by way of the old County road 
laid out in 1795. While this was the case, the business of 
Woodstock centered at Stephen's mill. Here was a grist mill, 
the Post Office, a store and a public house. In 1837, a road 
was accepted by the town, " beginning at a bridge southerly of 
Joseph Whitman's house and running to Paris line." This, 
though expressed in a few words, was a very important move- 
ment. The proposed road was nearly five miles in length, and 
would be a new and improved thoroughfare ithrough the town. 
Samuel H. Houghton came into town that year, and built up a 
place at the foot of Bryant's Pond, and made strong efforts to 
have a road located from West Paris, near the present location 
of the railroad. There was a protracted contest, but Mr. 
Houghton was defeated, the other route adopted by the County 
and built. This was a death blow to the hamlet at Stephen's 
mills, and the business, including the Post Office, was moved to 
South Woodstock. Subsequently, the little village at North 
Woodstock, to which somebody applied the name of " Pinhook," 
sprung up and divided the business of the town with the lower 
village. In 1851, when Woodstock was connected with Port- 
land by rail, a village sprung up around the station at Bryant's 
Pond. The new village at West Paris absorbed the one at 
South Woodstock, and Pinhook ceased to flourish after business 
became established at the railway station. Bryant's Pond is a 
center of trade for a considerable area. It is connected by stage 
and telegraph with Eumford and Andover, and is the point at 



HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 55 

which people from these and other back towns take the cars. 
Its total lack of water power will prevent its ever becoming an 
important manufacturing center, though this want has in part 
been overcome by the use of steam. A large spool factory has 
been established here, which has given a decided impulse to the 
business of the place. The granite quarries below the village 
also give constant employment in summer to quite a number 
of men. 

In the early times, town meetings were held at private 
houses. Sometimes they were held at Josiah Churchill's, who 
lived on the old road between Stephen Chase's and Asa Thur- 
low's ; they were at other times held at the house of ISToah 
Curtis, Jr., who lived on the Perrin Dudley farm. Subsequently 
they were held at the Chase school house. In 1849, the town 
voted to build a town house and chose Simon Fickett, Geo. W. 
Cushman and Eleazer Ellis a committee to procure plans. It 
was also voted to accept of a proposal made by Alden Chase, 
for erecting the town house on his land. The conditions were 
that the town should keep the lot fenced and remit, his tax 
assessed on account of the building. The house was built 
the subsequent year, and was occupied as a town house for over 
twenty years. In 1872, a new and convenient town hall, with 
suitable offices, was built for the town by 0. C. & H. F. Hough- 
ton, at Bryant's Pond, and the old town house was abandoned 
and removed. It stood on the west side of the County road, 
near the top of the hill, between the brook, which is southerly 
of D. J. Libby's, and the road that turns to the Chase school 
house. 

Woodstock has never furnished many State or County officers. 
It has never furnished a member of the Executive Council nor 
a State Senator. Alden Chase has served two terms as Eegister 
of Deeds ; Sidney Perham was elected Clerk of the Courts, and 
after his removal to Paris was three times elected to Congress 
and three times Governor of Maine. Herrick C. Davis is serv- 
ing his second term as Eegister of Probate. Wm. B. Lapham, 



56 HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 

while a resident of Woodstock, served one term as Trustee of 
the Insane Hospital, and a second term after he removed from 
town. The following is a list of representatives to the Legis- 
lature, which have been sent from this town since the organiza- 
tion of the State Government : 

1823, Stephen Chase. 1858, Albert H. Estes. 

1827, Samuel Stephens. 1861, Adouiram Curtis. 

1831, Samuel Stephens. •'#1864, Herrick C. Davis. 

1836, Kichard T. Lurvey. 1867, Wm. B. Lapham. 

1841, Geo. W. Cushman. 1870, Alden Chase. 

1845, Edmund Chase. 1874, Orlando C. Houghton. 

1851, Alden Chase. 1879, Benjamin Davis. 
1855, Sidney Perham, Speaker. 

Three Woodstock young men have graduated from college, 
namely: George E. Leonard, graduated from Dartmouth, and 
Charles 0. Whitman and Harrison S. Whitman from Bowdoin. 
William B. Lapham entered at Colby University but did not 
graduate. He has since received the degree of Master of Arts 
from the same institution. 

Of ministers, Woodstock has furnished quite a large number. 
The list embraces not only the natives born, but those who re- 
sided here when they began to preach. 

Baptists — Luther Perkins, David Pticker, Charles Perkins, 
Ziba Andrews and John C. Andrews. 

Methodists — Jesse H. Stephens, Nathan Andrews, A. Fitz 
Koy Chase and Eugene Whitman. 

Free Baptists — Gideon Perkins, Samuel IST. Brooks. 

Universalist — Harrison S. Whitman. 

Advents — Jared Whitman, Frank Thurlow. 

Of Lawyers — Herrick C. Davis and Peter C,«Fickett. 

Physicians — Orren Stephens and Jeff. C. Gallison. , 

Many young men have gone out from Woodstock, who have 
been respected and influential citizens in the places of their 



HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 57 

adoption ; not a few of these have their homes in the far west. 
For the past thirty years, Woodstock has not materially in- 
creased in population, due mainly to the western emigration. 
But they have not all gone west. In Boston, Portland, Law- 
rence, Lewiston, and in many other New England cities and 
towns, may be found Woodstock-born men and women who are 
filling responsible stations, and who are an honor to the town 
of their birth. Charles 0. Whitman, who has adopted Natural 
History as his life study and work, has already gained an envi- 
able name among the savants of Europe. He is now pursuing 
his studies and investigations in Germany. A. Fitz Eoy Chase is 
the learned and popular instructor in mathematics at the Wes- 
ley an Seminary and College at Kent's Hill. Charles P. Kimball, 
a native of the " Gore," whose business operations in this State 
are well known, is now one of the foremost men in the great 
city of Chicago ; his brother, Hannibal I. Kimball, of Atlanta, 
Georgia, Director General of the recent great International 
Cotton Exposition, in which he has achieved a national reputa- 
tion, was also born on the " Gore." He is still m the prime of 
manhood, and capable of still greater achievements. Other 
respected names might be added, did the space permit ; in con- 
clusion of this topic, Woodstock has reason to be proud of her 
contributions in both men and women she has made to other 
and various parts of the country. 

It might possess interest to some, could we continue the 
annals of the town down to the present time, but the original 
intent has already been exceeded. The beginnings of " Number 
Three " have been carefully sketched ; its brief plantation life 
as briefly given, and the salient points in the early history of 
the town have been gathered up and presented. Special sub- 
jects, which also contain much historical matter, are treated 
under separate heads, as in this form they can be more readily 
and conveniently referred to, while notices of families and 
individuals are more fully elaborated under the head of " Family 
Sketches." In closing this division of the general subject, it is 



58 HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 

the sincere wish of the writer that this goodly town, in which 
he was for several years a resident, and whose early history he 
has imperfectly sketched, may ever be a thrifty and prosperous 
municipality ; and to this end may her people ever uphold and 
cherish those great principles of temperance, morality and virtue 
which have been the means of accomplishing such great things 
for them in the past. 

Hamlin's gore. 

The territory formerly comprising Hamlin's Gore or " Hamlin's 
Grant," as it was sometimes incorrectly called, was a long and 
narrow strip 249 rods wide at the east end, next to Milton 
Plantation, and 294 rods wide at the west end, next to Green- 
wood, and situated between the grant to Dummer Academy and 
Bethel. The township of Sudbury, Canada, now Bethel, was 
first lotted out and fixed by metes and bounds, and when the 
grant was made to Dummer Academy, it was intended that its 
north line should be the south line of Bethel ; but the surveyor, 
mistaking a spotted line, made by sable hunters, for Bethel line, 
fixed the north line of the grant to Dummer Academy here, 
leaving the strip just described between the two townships. 
This line was also fixed by metes and bounds, so that Hamlin's 
Gore was not included in the co^iveyance to the trustees, or 
from the trustees «to Mr. Little. The original survey of the 
Gore was by David Noyes, Esq., of Norway, who gave it the 
following dimensions : On Miiton Plantation line 249 rods ; on 
Bethel line 936 rods ; on Greenwood line 294 rods ; and on 
Woodstock line 888 rods, and containing about 1,400 acres. 
He divided it into thirteen lots of unequal size and of the fol- 
lowing dimensions : 

Number one, 120 acres. Number six, 100 acres, 

" two, 120 acres, " seven, 80 acres, 

" three, 120 acres, " eight, 50 acres, 

" four, 100 acres, " nine, 145 acres, 

five, 100 acres, " ten, 116 acres. 



HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 59 

Number eleven, 115 acres, Number thirteen, 70 acres. 
" twelve, 85 acres. 

The surface, like that of most of the town of Woodstock, is 
uneven, and the soil hard to work, but productive. A large 
part of the North Alder Eiver Pond is within its borders, the 
southwest corner of the Gore being in the pond. 

On the 26th day of February, 1816, the Commonwealth of 
Massachusetts deeded this land to Dr. Cyrus Hamlin, of Paris, 
for and in consideration of the sum of six hundred dollars. 
Dr. Hamlin soon afterwards sold an undivided half of the terri- 
tory to Mr. John Daniels, of Paris. The land was immediately 
lotted out, with a view to having it settled. The first settler 
was Jonathan T. Clifford, son of Joseph, of Woodstock. April 
2, 1816, he purchased part of lot number nine, but had previously 
built him a log house on the shore of the pond which was then 
called " Clifford's Pond." In a bond which he gave to the town 
of Woodstock for the support of his mother, he is called " of a 
place called Hamlin's Grant." His wife was Widow Hodges, 
a sister of Benjamin Bacon, of Greenwood. He had left the 
place prior to 1827, removing to the eastern part of the State. 
Two other early settlers were Asa and Caleb B. Barrows, who 
took the triangular-shaped lot numbered ten. _ They built two 
log houses near Greenwood line ; Asa, father of Caleb, lived 
here with his daughter Polly, until she became the wife of 
Morton Curtis, when he went to live with them ; Caleb con- 
tinued to reside in his log house until about the year 1841, 
when he moved to Linneus, in the County of Aroostook. He 
died there a few years ago, quite aged. He was a soldier in 
the war of 1812, and was in the engagements in northern New 
York ; he drew a pension during his last few years. Tilden 
Bartlett moved to the Gore quite early from Paris. He bought 
lots number seven and eight. After a few years, he moved 
across the line into Bethel, disposing of his lands in the Gore 
to his brother Sylvanus. This is now the Pearson place. John 
Buck of Buckfield, bought lot number eleven and occupied it. 



60 HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 

His daughter's husband, Wm. E. Hemmingway, subsequently 
lived upon it. Isaac, and his son, Geo. W. Cummings, came here 
from Greenwood, and had part of lot number nine. Porter and 
Peter Kimball, sons of Peter of Bridgton, came to the Gore 
about the year 1815. Porter finally commenced to clear land 
adjoining the Gore, but within the limits of Bethel. In a 
couple of years, he sold out to Abijah Lapham, and moved to 
Eumford. Peter Kimball took up lot number one, which he 
occupied for more than thirty years. He was probably the 
second settler on the Gore.. He was a wheelwright and an in- 
dustrious and enterprising man. His large family of boys, who 
for ejiergy and business capacity have a wide reputation, are 
mentioned elsewhere. He had a carriage shop where he carried 
on business many years, most of his sons getting their primary 
knowledge of the business, which they afterwards made so 
successful, in this little shop. Subsequently Jonathan Kimball, 
brother of Peter, came and settled on lot number two. Josiah 
Moody, a native of Portland, came to the Gore from Paris and 
settled on lot number five. A portion of this lot is still owned 
and occupied by his grandson, Ansel Moody. That part of the 
farm where the buildings formerly stood was afterwards added 
to the Bailey farm. The original Bailey farm, lot number four, 
was owned by a Mr. Low and also by Barney Perry, both of 
whom cut trees and cleared land, but never lived upon it.. 
Jacob Eeed built the first buildings and lived upon the lot until 
he sold out to Bailey. Abram Jordan, of Norway, bought lot 
number twelve, but never lived upon it. It was afterwards 
owned by Daniel and Moses Cummings, and has had many 
occupants since. The westerly lines of lots number one two 
and three, are crooked, conforming to the direction of the 
" Whale's Back," a ridge of land thus called. 

Hamlin's Gore was first organized for plantation purposes in 
1826, the warrant for the first meeting having beeen issued by 
John Thompson, Esq., by direction of Henry Eust, Esq., Treas- 
urer of Oxford County. The meeting was held at the dwelling 



HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 61 

house of Peter Kimball, July 10, 1826, , and the following 
Plantation officers were chosen : For Moderator, Tilden Bartlett ; 
Clerk, Geo. W. Cummings ; Assessors, Peter Kimball, Geo. W. 
Cummings and Tilden Bartlett ; Collector, Josiah Moody, Jr. ; 
Treasurer, Peter Kimball. On the 17th of April following, a 
meeting was called by the Assessors, the warrant issued to 
Josiah Moody, Jr. ; Wm. K. Hemmingway was chosen Mod- 
erator, G%o. W. Cummings, Clerk ; Tilden Bartlett, Geo. W. 
Cummings and Caleb B. Barrows, Assessors ; Josiah Moody, 
Jr., Collector and Treasurer. The following sums were raised : 
Por plantation purposes, twenty dollars ; for roads, ten dollars ; 
to be expended on the Locke's Mills road, twelve dollars ; for 
school purposes, fifteen dollars. Tilden Bartlett was elected 
School Agent, and Geo. W. Cummings, Highway Surveyor. It 
was voted to petition the Court of General Sessions for a road 
to Greenwood line, in the direction of Locke's Mills. Asa 
Barrows was chosen Agent, to present the matter before the 
Court. 

On the third day of June, 1827, a committee consisting of 
Tilden Bartlett, Geo. W. Cummings and Caleb B. Barrows laid 
out and located the road leading from Greenwood line to the 
County road between Eumford and Paris. This Eumford and 
Paris road was the one located in 1795 ; it ran across the Gore. 
The road laid out by the Gore committee is essentially the one 
still traveled, the changes having been slight. On the twenty- 
seventh day of June following, at a plantation meeting, the road 
was accepted. At the meeting in April, 1828, Peter Kimball 
and Wm. R Hemmingway were chosen Superintending School 
Committee — the first board chosen. Twenty dollars were 
raised for the support of schools, and it was voted to join 
Bethel district in building a school house, "admitting we 
can have the privilege of building one-half of the house." 
At the annual meeting in 1830, it was voted to raise fifty 
dollars to be expended on the Gore road, and to open the 
road in two years. At this meeting it was voted that the 



62 HISTOEY OF WOODSTOCK. 

assessors shall be allowed on their highway tax for their 
services. 

The following tax list, made out and certified by the first 
assessors in 1827, shows the number of tax payers in the plan- 
tation, and the amount of taxes each one was assessed : 

Geo. W. Cummings, •• 2.28 Josiah Moody, 0.26 

Tilden Bartlett, 1.48 Peter Kimball, ^ 2.33 

Wm. K. Hemmingway, 2.42 Francis Kimball, 0.70 

Isaac Cummings, 1.52 Barnabas Perry, 1.15 

Caleb B. Barrows, 1.86 Thomas Darmon, 0.50 

Polly Barrows, 0.26 Abijah Lapham, 0.15 

John Buck, 0.30 Cyrus Hamlin and John 

Josiah Moody, Jr., 1.88 Daniels, non-residents, 1.50 

Jonathan Kimball, 1.70 

Francis Kimball was a brother of Peter ; he lived here only 
a short time and committed suicide. Abijah Lapham was not a 
resident but was taxed on a small piece of land. Thomas Dar- 
mon came here from Buckfield and built a small house south of 
the burying ground, on Whale's Back. He was here about 
three years and returned to Buckfield. Barnabas Perry was 
not a resident but owned the Bailey farm. In 1831, thirteen 
polls were taxed. Simeon Buck had come here, and his sons 
Stephen and Harrison Buck had become of age ; Abijah and 
James Lapham had moved here from Bethel. This year thirty 
scholars were reported. In 1832, there were eleven voters ; the 
new comers were Sylvanus Bartlett, Eobert Bearce and Jacob 
Bead. John Buck had died, and T^ilden Bartlett, Abijah and 
James Lapham, and some others, had gone away. 

In 1833 there was a movement to annex the plantation to 
Woodstock, and George W. Cummings was chosen a committee 
to take charge of the matter. This year the plantation voted 
to build a school house and to locate it as near the center as 
possible ; Caleb B. Barrows, Josiah Moody and Ptobert Bearce 
were a committee to find the center of the District. Peter 



HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 63 

Kimball was chosen an agent to superintend the building of 
the school house. It was voted to allow gates across the road 
through the Gore. The scliQol house was built on the road 
near where th6 pound was afterwards built. It was burned in 
a few years, and a new one built on the present location. In 
1834, Isaac Hicks was a resident and was elected Hogreeve. 
The records show that the plantation had two law suits on its 
hands, one with " Eustis," and one with "Estes." In 1835, 
Peter Kimball ofifered to board the school mistress for twenty- 
five cents per week. It was voted to build a road from Mr. 
Bearce's to the County road. In 1836, 326 were raised for 
schools and $125 for roads. Samuel Bailey*was in the planta- 
tion. It was voted to build a road around " Barrow's Hill," and 
another to Simeon Buck's place. At an adjourned meeting, it 
was voted to build a road to Benj. Brooks' land. At the April, 
1837, meeting, it was voted to receive the surplus revenue, and 
Peter Kimball was chosen to go and get it ; it was also voted 
to divide it per capita among the families in the plantation. 
The following sums were received by each family : George 
W. Cummings, $18.30; Caleb B. Barrows, $18.30; Hudson 
Bailey, $11.64 ; Stephen Buck, $8.32; Peter Kimball, $16.64; 
Jonathan Kimball, $6.65 ; Joseph Cummings, $30.31 ; Syl- 
vanus Bartlett, $11.64; Eobert Bearce, $6,65; Simeon Buck, 
$8.32; Benj. Brooks, $4.99; Josiah Moody, $11.65.* The 
amount 2?er 'ca^ite was $1.66^, which would show the whole 
number of inhabitants at this time to be 92. In 1838, it was 
voted to raise $4 for plantation charges, $26 for schools and 
$100 for roads. It was voted that the expense of assessing 
taxes be allowed on the highway tax of the assessors. Tliis 
year the vote for Governor stood, for John Fairfield, 13 ; for 
Edward Kent, 1. 

In 1839, Andrew Gates and Hiram Day had moved into the 
plantation. In 1840, Reward Bryant moved into the plantation 
from Paris ; he married a daughter of Geo. W. Cummings. In 
1847, the plantation pound was built. Previous to this, the 



64 HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 

plantation, at the annual meeting, had designated some barn 
yard to be the pound for a year. These little details of planta- 
tion affairs may have no general interest, but they go to make 
up plantation life and history. The early settlers of the Gore 
were simple in their habits and economical in their mode of 
living, and carried the same economy into plantation affairs that 
they practiced in their daily lives. 

Nothing came of the effort to annex the Gore to Woodstock 
in 1833, nor was it any great source of regret to the plantation. 
They would have some advantages in a town that the planta- 
tion organization could not afford, but the present organization 
also .had its advantages. Their public affairs could be managed 
in a more economical way and the taxes were much less. Four 
or five dollars in money a year answered for plantation purposes, 
the accounts of the plantation officers being allowed on their 
highway taxes. The money raised for the support of schools 
was often paid in produce from the farm, so that the burdens 
'.* of taxation were lightly felt and easily borne. In 1847, there 
was a project started by Phineas Frost and others, of Bethel, 
for the incorporation of a new town, made up of the east part 
of Bethel, Milton plantation and the Gore. The plan found 
much favor in Bethel, but was stoutly resisted by the Gore and 
defeated. 

Afl,er this, the affairs of the plantation moved on in a, very 
quiet way. Some changes had been made in the population. 
Caleb Barrows, with his large family, had gone to Aroostook, and 
Daniel H. Crockett took his farm. Geo. W. Cummings, with 
several grown up boys, went west and Hiram Day moved from 
his hill farm to the place made vacant by Mr. Cummings. Sylva- 
nus Bartlett moved to Greenwood and was succeeded by Wm. 
0. Pearson. Simeon Buck moved away and his place was occu- 
pied by Geo. W. Crockett, who married Esther, daughter of 
Robert Bearce. John G. Burns occupied the Peter Kimball 
place, and after living a few years in a new house built nearly 
opposite the Bailey place, Mr. Kimball moved to Norway, where 



HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 6o 

several of his sons had gone. A few years later, Hudson and 
Samuel Bailey sold out to John B. Merrill and went west, 
where the latter soon died. The old ]\Ioody place, south of 
Bailey's, afterwards occupied by Andrew Gates, had been dis- 
mantled some years before, and the land added to the Bailey 
farm. Josiah Moody built a stand on the hill, near the west 
part of the lot where Ansel Moody now lives. 

The last census taken of the Gore as a separate municipality 
was in 1870. There were then in the plantation seventeen 
dwelling houses, eighteen families and ninety-five inhabitants, 
only three more than in 1837, when the surplus revenue was 
divided. The 'inhabitants consisted of forty-four white and 
one colored males, and fifty white females. The names and 
ages, by families, as recorded by the census enumerator were 
as follows : 

1. John G. Burns 58, Eliza G. 21, Josephine 9. 

2. John A. Buck 40, Mary C. 35, Emma E. 16, Solomon C. 
13, George E. 11, Freddie 9, Mary J. 6, Cora A. 4, Amos A. 2. 

3. Emeline McCrillis 37, Ida F. 14, Georgie E. 12, NelHe 
A. 9, Lorilla F. 5. 

4. Albert Billings 36, Julia A. 33, Albert 0. 14, Geo. W. 
12, Charles H. 9, Cora E. 7. 

5. Joseph Cummings 61, Clara 26, Koscoe W. 23. 

6. Hezekiah S. Pingree 41, Eoxana B. 33, Iva A. 3, Isaac 
H. 1. 

7. Hiram Day 56, Eben E. Beverley 29, Carrie E. Beverley 
23, Herbert E. 6, Capitola B. 1. 

8. James B. Dudley 38, Ellen 29. 

9. Wm. 0. Pearson 54, Clementine 48, Wm. H. 29, Mary 
E. 19, Delia S. Moore 15. 

10. Robert Bearce 69, Betsey 68, Leroy D. Morgan 26, 
Mary E. 26. 

11. Geo. W. Crockett 40, Esther F. 39, Elizabeth F. 15, 
Robert B. 12, Georgiana 9, Hajrry 7, William 6, Lucy A. 5, 

5 



66 HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 

Jonathan 3, James H. Swan 40, Imogene 9, Frank Williams 
(colored) 23. 

12. Ansel Moody 45, Mary P. 38, Fred. 14, Frank 10, 
Josiah 6. 

13. John Buck 66, Hannah 68, Jerusha 24. 

14. Arabella Estes 29, John G. 12, Sylvester B. 9, Anna E. 
5, Irving 3, Emogene 1. 

15. Oliver G. Swan 44, Lois E. 31, Eliza J. 13, Letis A. 11, 
Sibyl B. 10, Moses A. 8, Arvilla 5, Cora A. 2, Henry E. ^^. 

16. Peter Brooks 47, Arvilla 44, Henrietta 16, Prescott 23, 
Clarinda 12, Christiana 10, Wm. E. 4. 

1-7. Jonathan Kimball 72, Satina 62, Almeda Newton 31, 
Anna H. 8. 

18. John B. Merrill 39, Sarah M. 31, Cora J. 6. 

When this census was taken, Jonathan Kimball was the last 
survivor of the first settlers then living on the Gore,»and he 
died soon after. John Buck and Joseph Cummings were here 
early, but they were minors when they came, and the former, 
when of age, settled in Bethel, where he lived many years and 
then returned here. In 1873, Hamlin's Grant was annexed to 
Woodstock, and the circumstances which led to it were briefly 
these. John B. Merrill, formerly of Pray & Merrill, traders 
at Bryant's Pond, sold out and bought the Bailey farm on the 
Gore. He was a man of considerable energy and push, and 
entered into several business enterprises which proved unsuc- 
cessful. To retrieve his waning fortunes, he opened a liquor 
shop at his house, and under the protection of the licensing 
board of the plantation, of wdiich be was one, he disposed of 
large quantities of liquor which he purchased of the State Liquor 
Agent. The report of that official for 1873, showed that Merrill 
had purchased the year previous over three thousand dollars' 
worth. It was sold in Woodstock, Milton Plantation and Eum- 
ford, and in fact, into towns quite remote from the Gore. It 
was regarded by temperance people as a nuisance, and the 
prosecuting officer of the County was appealed to, but declared 



HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 67 

himself powerless to do anything so long as Merrill was pro- 
tected by a license, and circumstances were such that he could 
hold the license as long as he pleased. There was only one 
chance left, and that was to annex the plantation to the staunch 
temperance town of Woodstock, and measures were at once 
taken to accomplish this result. The movement was begun on 
the Gore, in the shape of a petition to the Legislature, which 
was signed by Ansel Moody, W. 0. and W. 11. Pearson and a 
few others, and by a large number of voters in Woodstock. 
At the hearing before the Legislative committee, Merrill 
appeared and defended, but the committee were practically 
unanimous in favor of annexation and so reported ; the meas- 
ure was then carried through the Legislature with but little 
difficulty, and its approval by the Governor put an end to 
Hamlin's Gore as separate organization, and to its legalized 
liquor shop. Merrill soon after moved away, owing the State 
liquor agent quite a large sum, for which the inhal itants of the 
Gore were responsible, and the collection of wliich was enforced 
by legal process. It has been nine years since the Gore lost its 
identity and became a part of Woodstock ; it was only return- 
ing to Woodstock that territory whicli belonged to it, and which 
was left off by a mistake of the surveyor made seventy-five 
years before. 

CHURCH HISTORY. 

THE BAPTISTS. 

The first settlers of Woodstock were generally church going 
people and felt seriously the loss of the privileges they had pre- 
viously enjoyed, when they came into this wilderness. A 
perusal of Chase's Journal shows that meetings were occasion- 
ally held at the liouses of the settlers, at some of which they 
had preaching, at others reading, and at others they had only a 
social gathering. Mr. Chase himself became a lay preacher, 
and Jacob Whitman was early in the habit of expounding the 



68 HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 

Scriptures in the log houses of the settlers and also in Green- 
wood. It is stated, on the authority of Jacob Whitman, that 
the first preaching meeting ever held in town was at the house 
of Luther Whitman, and that the preacher was Elder John 
Tripp, of Hebron. This house stood a little south of where 
the Whitman school house now stands and on the same side of 
the road. The date of this meeting Mr. Whitman could not 
remember, but thought it was probably in 1802. In 1802, says 
David Kicker, Elder Tripp preached liere and two persons were 
baptized. The ordhiance of the Lord's Supper was also ob- 
served for the first time in this town, Jacob Whitman and 
Stephen Chase officiating as deacons. The early Baptists of 
Woodstock belonged to the church in Paris, some of them 
having joined there before coming here. David Ricker says 
that some years later a " branch " of the Baptist church of Paris 
was organized in this town, but as the early records of the 
Paris church are lost, the precise date cannot be fixed. This 
" branch " also included some persons living in the north part 
of Paris. The names of the early members are William and 
Deborah Berry, Jacob and Dorcas Whitman, Luther Whitman, 
Calvin Cole, Christopher Bryant, Stephen Chase, Ephraim Drake, 
■ Lydia and Tabitha Briggs, Bethiah Swan, Sally Bryant and 
Betsey Cole.. Very soon afterwards there was a revival and 
nineteen were added, making a total of thirty-four members. 
Chase's journal gives some account of the early meetings. 
Under date of August 16, 1802, he says: " Went to a lecture 
at Mr. Becklar's and heard Mr. Grant." This was doubtless the 
first meeting ever held in Woodstock, and whether it was a 
religious meeting or not the journal does not specify. It is 
quite probable, however, that it was a sermon that Mr. Grant 
delivered. 

On the fourth of September, 1802, Mr. Chase again enters in 
his journal, as follows : " Went to meeting at Luther Whit- 
man's," but he does not give us the name of the preacher. It is 
probable, however, that this was the meeting spoken of by 



HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 69 

Jacob Whitman, and that there was preaching by Elder Tripp. 
The next meeting spoken of by Mr. Chase was held on the 
twenty-seventh of September, when he "went to meeting and 
heard Mr. Tripp at Luther Briggs'." After this, meetings are of 
frequent mention, and Mr. Tripp, Mr. Low, Mr. Woodward and 
Mr. Chase are among the speakers named. He also speaks of 
hearing " Dea, Berry," " Dea. Willis," " Mr. llicker " and others, 
who were not preachers, but exhorters. The meetings were 
held at the different houses in the neighborhood, at the two 
Swans', the two Chases', Luther Briggs', the two Whitmans' and 
at Mr. Cole's. This was Consider Cole, who did not live in No. 
3, but just across the line in Greenwood. Elder Chase was of 
Buckfield, and Elder Tripp of Hebron ; Elder Hooper, of Paris, 
also preached occasionally here. These preachers were Baptist 
missionaries, and the seed thus early sown by them fell upon 
good ground and bore much fruit, for the Baptist was the leading 
denomination here for many years, and is one of the strongest 
now. 

The few scattering entries in Chase's journal give us a very 
good idea of the state of the cause at the end of seven years 
from the first settlement. For the first three years, no meetings 
were had, and the population was not such as to justify the 
holding of meetings ; but as new families came in, the Baptist 
churches, which were then strong in Paris and Hebron, began 
to look after this new field. The small log huts of the settlers 
were the only places where meetings could be held, and the 
limited accommodations for keeping the minister, and the always 
coarse and sometimes scanty fare set before him, were by no 
means attractive, but such as they had the settlers freely oJBfered, 
and the ministers of those days were not at all fastidious ; they 
were true and earnest workers in theu- Master's vineyard, and 
not only ready and willing, but anxious to make personal sacri- 
fices for the good of souls. And it would seem that they did 
not labor without results, for Mr. Chase speaks of two instances 
where several persons were baptized, including himself and wife. 



70 HISTOKY OF WOODSTOCK. 

and he probably did not make a record of them all. Mr. Chase 
was subsequently chosen a Deacon of the Baptist church in 
Paris, and though residing some nine or ten miles away, he 
frequently went there to meeting. With these early efforts, 
persistently followed up in after years, it is no wonder that 
the Baptists took the lead of other denominations from the very 
beginning, and for many years was the only organized religious 
body in town. Jacob Whitman was a pillar of strength in the 
early days. He would labor hard upon the land all the week, 
and then preach on Sunday to his neighbors. Stephen Chase 
also became a preacher or exhorter. John Becklar, though his 
native tongue was Dutch, was a good scholar, and on Sundays, 
when they had no preacher, he read a sermon or from some 
religious book, no doubt to the edification of his hearers. 

We have shown that the Calvinist Baptists early occupied 
this field, and they held a large portion of it for many years. 
The branch of the Paris church, early organized here, became 
eventually the Paris a/id Woodstock church, which was organ- 
ized in 1828, and continues its organization to the present time. 
This church is made up of Baptists from the south-east part of 
Woodstock and the north-east part of Paris, and their place of 
meeting is at Paris Harbor, where they own either part or the 
whole of a very convenient church edifice. The Paris and Wood- 
stock church first sent delegates to the association in 1828, and 
the names of those representing the church for a series of years 
are given below. The names of ordained ministers are in small 
capitals, the licensed preachers in italics, and the figures at the 
end represent the number of members that year. 

1828. Jacob Wliitman, Christopher Bryant, William Berry. 
—35. 

1829. Jacob Whitman, Thomas E. Carman. — 39. 

1830. Eben. Drake, Luther Perkins.— 27. 

1831. Daniel Macomber, Eben. Drake. — 29. 

1832. William Berry, Luther Perkins.— 34. 



HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 71 

1833. Luther Perkins, William Berry.— 34. 

1834 Luther Perkins, Dea. William Berry, Dea. Cornelius 
Perkins.^34. 

1835. Same.— 34. 

1836. Luther Perkins, William Berry. — 35. 

1837. Deacons Berry and Perkins. — 39. 
' 1838. E. Drake.— 42. 

1839. Dea. William Berry, K. Chandler.— 51. 

1840. Dea. Berry, Z. Andrews.— 51. 

1841. Dea. Perkins, Z. Andrews.-^50. 

1842. E. Drake, Z. Andrews, Chas. Perkins. — 62. 

1843. Same and Dea. Berry. — 63. 

1844. Luther Perkins, Sylvanus Dnnham, Z. Andrews, 

C. Perkins.— 67. 

1845. Reuben Milner, Wm. Berry, J. Benson. — 68. 

1846. Addison Abbott, Gibbs Benson, E. Drake. — 71. 

1847. Addison Abbott, Z. Andrews, Dea, Gibbs Benson, C. 
Perkins. — 71. 

1848. Addison Abbott, Stillman Berry, Harvey Berry. — 71. 

1849. Same.— 70. 

1850. Same and Dea. Benson and C. Perkins. — 68. 

1851. Same minister and Dea. S. Berry, C. Perkins, L. Wliit- 
man. — 66. 

1852. Same minister and C. Perkins, L. Wliitman, H. Berry. 
—63. 

1853. C. Perkins, Dea. S. Berry, H. Berry, L. Whitman. 
—72. 

1854. Deacons Berry and Benson, H. Berry, L. Whitman, 

D. Perkins. 

1855. C. Perkins, G. Benson, Z. Andrews, H. Berry. — 66. 

1856. C. Perkins, G. Benson, Z. Andrews, H. Berry.— 46. 

The reason of the falling off in membership in 1830, was the 
formation that year of the Woodstock and Greenwood church, 
which took away a portion of its strength, and again, in 1856, 



72 HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 

by the formation of the Bryant's Pond church in 1855. The 
ministers since the above date have been M. Lawrence, R. B. 
Andrews, 0. Eichardson, Wm. Beavins, H. C. Estes, D. D., and 
T. G. Lyons. Some of these have been settled and the others 
have merely supplied. 

The Woodstock and Greenwood church was organized in 
1830. It took the Baptists from the west part of Woodstock 
and the east part of Greenwood. The meetings were generally 
held in the Bryant neighborhood in Greenwood, though some- 
times in the Whitman school district in Woodstock. This 
church never owned any church edifice, its meetings being held 
in school houses. It was disorganized in 1855, and its members 
became members of the Bryant's Pond church. Its first and 
subsequent delegates to the association were as follows : 

1830. Dea. Jacob Whitman, Dea. Christopher Bryant, Jr. — 
41. 

1831. Jacob Whitman and Jonathan Cole. — 40. 

1832. Same. — 40. 

1833. Same.— 40. 

1834. Same.— 38. 

1835. Same.— 37. 

1836. Same.— 33. 

1837. Same.— 29. 

1838. Jacob Whitman, Joseph Whitman, Dea. C. Bryant. — 
29. 

1839. Dea. Bryant, D. Bicker.— 37. 

1840. Same.— 34. 

1841. Same and L. Whitman.— 34. 

1842. Same and Jacob Whitman. — 30. 

1843. Reuben Milner, C. Bryant, L. Whitman, Cyprian 
Cole.— 38. 

1844. Reuben Milner, C. Bryant, D. Ricker. 

1845. Same minister and Dea. C. Bryant, Jacob Whitman. — 
37. 



HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 73 

1846. Jacob Whitman, C. Bryant, Cyprian Cole, D. Richer, 
Jr.— 35. 

1847. Same.— 34. 
1843. Same.— 35. 

1849. D. Bicker, C. Bryant.— 34. 

1850. J. Whitman, D. Bicker, C. Bryant, C. Cole.— 34. 

1851. D. Bicker.— 3^. 

1852. Same.— 32. 

1853. Same and C. Bryant. — 31. 

1854. David Kicker, I)ea. C. Bryant, J. Cole, R Whitman. 
—36. 

1855. D. Kicker, C. Bryant, S. Cole, R. Whitman. — 39. 

. The Hamlin's Gore Baptist Church embraced the Gore, the 
north part of Woodstock, and a few families in the east part of 
Bethel. It was organized in 1827, and continued its organiza- 
tion for twenty-eight years, when it was merged into the church 
at Bryant's Pond. ll had no church edifice and early held its 
meetings in private houses, school houses, and sometimes, in 
summer, in barns. Its numbers were much larger than those of 
the other churches of which Woodstock formed a part, due 
largely to the efficient labors of Rev. Ransom Dunham, who was 
its first pastor, and sustained that relation for many years. 
Abijah Lapham was the first Deacon, and Calvin Jackson the 
second. Its representation in the association is given below : 

1828. Abijah Lapham, Josiah Moody, Amos Bryant. — 35. 

1829. Abijah Lapham, Tilden Bartlett— 39. 

1830. Peter Kimball, Stephen Estes. — 41. 

1831. Calvin Jackson, Amos Bryant. — 39. 

1832. Abijah Lapham.— 38. 

1833. Same and George W. Cummings. — 38. 

1834. Calvin Jackson, G. W. Cummings. — 34, 

1835. Calvin Jackson, Amos Bryant. — 33. 

1836. Bansom Dunham, Amos Bryant, Calvin Jackson. — 34. 

1837. Ransom Dunham, Amos Bryant, George W. Cum- 
mings. — 59. 



74 HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 

1838. Eansom Dunham, Seneca Landers, John Bird. — G5. 

1839. E. Dunham, Peter Kimball, S. Hall.— 66. 

1840. Same.— 67. 

1841. K. Dunham, C. Jackson, John Lapham, John Bird. — 
67. 

1842. E. Dunham, John Clark, Amos Bryant. — 81. 

1843. E. Dunham, H. Moody.— 97. 

1844. E. Dunham, Nahum P. Moody, Eli H. Cushman. — 94. 

1845. Same, Hezekiah Moody, Stephen Estes. — 87. 

1846. Same, A. Bryant, S. Landers. — 69. 

1847. Same, J. Clark, Silas Billings, Amos Bryant.— 68. 

1848. Same, H. Moody, S. Estes, Caleb Besse. 

1849. Same, J. Lapham, H. Moody, A. Bryant. — 61. 

1850. Same, Dea. John Lapham, A. Bryant. — 54. 

1851. Same, John Lapham, L. Moody, S. Estes. — 50. 

1852. Z. Andrews, J. Lapham, S. Landers, L. P. Cummings. 
—42. 

1853. Same, J. Lapham, H. Moody, A. Bryant. — 42. 

1854. Same, S. Estes, H. Moody.— 43. 

1855. EoBEKT GoUD, J. Lapham, S. Landers, A. Bryant. 
—39. 

The Bryant's Pond Baptist Church was organized in 1855-6, 
its memberships being made up of the Hamlin's Gore, Wood- 
stock and Greenwood, and part of the Paris and Woodstock 
churches. A convenient church edifice was built at Bryant's 
Pond and dedicated in 1856. Its first delegates to the Oxford 
Baptist Association, and those for a few subsequent years, are 
here given : 

1856. David Eicker, Eansom Dunham, C. Bryant, S. Estes, 
S. Landers. — Membership, 91. 

1857. D. Eicker, C. Bryant, John Laphaiji, C. Cole. — 85. 

1858. M. Lawrence, D. Eicker, C. Bryant, J. Lapham. 

1859. M. Lawrence, John Lapham, D. Eicker, Dustin 
Bryant, Geo. W. Eicker.— 99. 



HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 75 

1860. D. Ricker, J. Lapham, C. Bryant, E. Landers, J. Cum- 
mings. — 98. 

1861. Z. Morton, D. Ricker, C. Bryant, J. Lapham.— 101. 

1862. W. Beavins, D. Ricker, J. Lapham, C. Bryant, J. 
Moody, J. Cumraings. — 88. 

1863. Same, G. W. Ricker, D. Bryant.— 95. 

1864. Same, S. Estes, J. Lapham. 

1865. T. J. SwETT, D. Ricker, J. Lapham, S. Estes, J. Moody. 
—86. 

1866. Same, D. Bryant, J. Moody, R. L. Cole, S. Estes.— 85. 

1867. Same, Dea. D. Bryant, Dea. J. Moody, R. L. Cole, S. 
Estes. — 85. 

Ministers since 1867, have been A. Morton, J. C. Tucker, A. 
C. Herrick, T. G. Lyons, and Seth Benson. 



UNIVERSALISTS. 

It is not probable that any of the early settlers of this town 
were Universalists. Most of them, as already stated, were 
Baptists, and the second denomination in numbers and influence 
for many years, was the Methodist. D. T. Stevens, N. C. Hodg- 
don and Migliill Jewett were among the ministers who quite 
early came here to preach, and their labors were not without 
results. Among those who early embraced this belief was the 
large Perham family, the descendants of Lemuel, who came 
from Paris. The Day and Dudley families also became Uni- 
versalists quite early. D. T. Stevens held a three days' meeting 
here, February 9, 10 and 11, 1843, when he baptized thirteen 
persons, and the Woodstock Universalist church was organized 
with the following members : Alexander Day, Joel Perham, 
Alfred Chase, Kilbon Perham, Perrin Dudley, Joshua Perham, 
Joel Perham, Jr., Sidney Perham, Azel Perham, Sylvania 
Perham, Sarah P. Carter, Elvira Chase, Paulina Dudley, Almena 
J. Perham, Mary Perham and Delphina Whitman. At the first 



76 HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 

meeting, Perrin Dudley was Moderator and Sidney Perham 
Clerk ; Joel Perham and Alfred Chase were elected Stewards. 

1844. Perrin Dudley Moderator and Kilbon Perham Clerk ; 
Sidney Perham and Joshua Perham were elected Stewards. 

July 29th, John A. Caswell was dismissed from the church. 

March 22, 1845, Joseph Whitman was dismissed. 

1848., June 17. Perrin Dudley, Moderator and Kilbon Per- 
ham, Clerk; Sidney Perham and Kilbon Perham, Stewards. 

1850, June 29. Sidney Perham, Jonathan Perham and 
Kilbon Perham were chosen a committee to take into considera- 
tion the best method of raising funds to support preaching. 

1857, April 18. Officers elected were Joel Perham, Jr., Mod- 
erator; Kilbon Perham, Clerk; Sidney Perham and Kilbon 
Perham, Stewards ; Joshua Perham, Alexander Day and Kilbon 
Perham, Collectors. July 11. Voted to receive Sophronia Per- 
ham, Ann M. King, Alexander Day, Thomas B. Carter and A. 
P. Bowker as members of the church, and on the following day 
the right hand of fellowship was given by Eev. Zenas Thomp- 
son to the above named persons, and also to Sarah A. Gallison. 
September 5th, Sidney Perham, Alexander Day, Kilbon Perham 
and T. B. Carter were chosen delegates to the Oxford Univer- 
salist Association, at Bethel. 

1864, June 5. Frances L. Fuller, Henrietta D. Cummings 
and Martha J. Tuttle were baptized ; sermon by Rev. Z. Thomp- 
son. 

1865, July 9. The ordinance of baptism was administered 
to Mrs. Hannah E. Hilton, Mrs. Eliza A. Jacobs and Mrs. Maria 
G. Day, by Rev. Zenas Thompson. 

1867, April 14. This day Rev. E. W. Coffin began his labors 
with the church, and for the first time in the history of the 
church it had a settled pastor, and several members bought a 
parsonage. 

These few extracts from the records will give some idea of 
the church. Its numbers were never large and its resources, 
always limited. Its meetings, up to the time of building the 



HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 77 

town house, which was somewhere about the year 1850, were 
held in school houses, and generally in the one in the Chase 
District. They were then held in the town house until the 
church was built at Bryant's Pond. The society had long con- 
templated building a house of worship and had held many 
meetings in pursuance thereof. It was tinally decided to build 
and the timber was hauled to the spot. The place selected was 
on the County road below. 

But now the Grand Trunk Eailway was building through 
the town, and it soon became apparent that a village would 
spring up around the station at Bryant's Pond, and so it was 
wisely determined to locate the house there. A fine lot was 
given by Mr. Joseph Frye, and the house was located in the 
Pine grove where it still stands. It was built by ]\Ir. Moses 
Houghton and was very substantially made. 

Ministers. D. T. Stevens was the first laborer in this field, 
and was greatly beloved by the early members of this faitli. 
N. C. Hodgdon was also an occasional preacher here. After 
the meetings were held at the town house, John L. Stevens, 
who afterwards entered politics and has been a foreign ministei 
for the last dozen or more years, preached here a portion of the 
time. T. J. Tenney, of Norway, preached frequently in Wood- 
stock and to great acceptance. In 1854, after the church edifice 
at Bryant's Pond was dedicated, Eey. Zenas Thompson, who 
was settled over the church in Bethel and resided there, engaged 
for half the time here. He was an able preacher, and the 
church was much strengthened under his ministry. Eev, A. G. 
Gaines, now at the head of the St. Lawrence University at 
Canton, N. Y., succeeded Mr. Thompson at Bethel, and also for 
one or two seasons preached a portion of the time at Bryant's 
Pond. After him came John Dore, 0. II. Johnson, and finally, 
Ezekiel W. Coffin, a native of Maine, but long a resident of 
Massachusetts and New Hampshire, his last settlement before 
coming here being Jaftrey, N. H., came here with his family. 
Several of the members of the society united with him in the pur- 



78 HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 

chase of a building for a parsonage. The place selected was the 
one previously occupied by Joseph Moody and Wm. Ackley and 
others. He commenced his labors here in the spring of 1867, as 
stated in the records, and the society began to feel that it had taken 
a new departure and was on the high road to prosperity. But 
after preaching with us a year, Mr. Coffin became discontented, 
or at least his family did, and the society were surprised by the 
announcement that he had received and accepted a call to go to 
Orange, Mass. He has since deceased. The society was soon 
after weakened by the removal of quite a number of members 
from town. J. F. Simmons, who was settled at Bethel, has 
preached for the society since Mr. Coffin went away, and for 
some years they were without a regular supply. Quite recently, 
Eev. L. H. Tabor has moved here with his family, preaches 
here a portion of the time, and also in the adjoining towns. 

A list of persons who contributed to the support of the 
society a year previous, and during the ministry of Mr. Coffin, 
is given below : S. A. Brock, A. P. Bowker, F. A. Barstow, C. 
P. Berry, K. T. Bryant, J. C. Billings, H. C. Berry, Benj. Bacon, 

F. M. Bartlett, D. P. Bowker, Lawson Bryant, J. Churchill, 
Perrin Dudley, T. E. Day, Alex. Day, Elijah Day, Daniel Day, 
John Day, H. F. Cole, N. B. Crockett, Henrietta Cummings, A. 
T. Cummings, G. Cole, S. B. Doughty, Wm. Day, Caleb Fuller, 

G. G. Fuller, Artemas Felt, Elbridge Fifield, Granville N. Felt, 
Samuel B. Frost, Hannah Hilton, Levi J. Gilbert, J. C. Gallison, 
Sarah A. Gallison, Moses Houghton, E. M. Hobbs, J. M. Galli- 
son, Austin A. Gray, Aaron M. Irish, L. C. Jewell, Thaddeus R 
Knight, Wm. B. Lapham, Danville J. Libby, Cyrus Millett, 
Sylvania Perham, Kilbon Perham, Joel Perham, Joel Perham, Jr., 
Joshua Perham, Joseph Pray, Andrew J. Perham, Eufus S. Ean- 
dall, Alanson M. Trull, David G. Swan, James Sheran, Mrs. 
Martha J. Tuttle, Chas. 0. Whitman, Harrison S. Whitman, 
John C. Warren, Alanson M. Whitman, Geo. W. Whitman, 
Lyman York, Ansel Dudley, sixty-four in all. 

The plans and specifications for the church edifice at Bryant's 



HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. .79 

Pond were furnished by Ezra F. Beal, of Norway, October 10, 
1851 ; it was commenced in the spring of 1852, and was for- 
mally dedicated February 2, 1853. It was the first church 
erected in town, and the first one in Oxford County north of 
Norway, owned exclusively by the Universalist denomination. 
The services of the dedication were conducted as follows : Head- 
ing of the Scriptures and invocation by lie v. John L. Stevens, 
of Norway ; sermon by Rev. M. Goodrich, of Lewiston ; dedi- 
catory prayer by Rev. D. T. Stevens, of Norway. In the after- 
noon, a sermon was preached by Rev. John L. Stevens. The 
meetings were largely attended, and much interest was manifested 
in the occasion. The building, all finished ready for use, cost 
about two thousand dollars, and the sale of pews liquidated the 
debt. 

A social Library was organized in connection with the 
Universalist Society in Woodstock, Nov. 18, 18-1.3. It was or- 
ganized by virtue of a warrant issued to Alden Chase from 
Robinson Parlin, a Justice of the Peace. At the first meeting, 
holden on the above day, Robinson Parlin was chosen Mod- 
erator and Sidney Perham, Clerk. Alden Chase, Robinson Parlin 
and Sidney Perham were appointed a committee to report a 
constitution. They subsequently made a report which was 
accepted. Robinson Parlin, Joel Perham and Sidney Perham 
were chosen managers, Alfred Chase, Librarian, and Sidney 
Perham, Alden Chase and Robinson Parlin a committee to 
purchase books. 

The Constitution, which contained twenty-two articles, pro- 
vided for an annual meeting at the dwelling house of the Libra- 
rian on the first Saturday in December. Fifty cents were re- 
quired to be paid by each member on joining, and an annual 
assessment of not less than ten cents. Books were allowed to 
be kept twelve weeks, and only one volume could be taken out 
at a time by the same person. Article 19 provided that no 
book should be received into the library except such as a ma- 
j ority of the Universalist members should approve. Article 20 



80 HISTOKY OF WOODSTOCK. 

provided that the library should be kept within the limits of 
School District Number 3, in Woodstock. The memberships 
were not confined to Woodstock. Eobinson Parlin was of Paris, 
and several citizens of that town became members. The library 
was intended to be sectarian, as a few of the titles from the 
list of books first purchased will show : Paige's Selections, 
Titles of Jesus, Life of Murray, Quinby's Exposition, Whitte- 
more on the Parables, Smith on Divine Government, Ballou's 
Select Sermons, Treatise on Atonement, Law of Kindness, 
Universalism vs. Partialism, Radical Hints to Universalists, 
Universalist Guide, Happy Death Scenes, Ancient and Modern 
History of Universalism, Compend of Divinity, Crown of Thorns, 
Paige's Commentaries, etc. 

At a meeting holden July 10, 1858, it was voted to move the 
library to the Universalist church at Bryant's Pond. Alfred 
Chase served as Librarian, with the exception of part of the 
year 1858, from the date of organization in 1843 to 1861, when 
Joel Perliam, Jr., was chosen to succeed him. He served two 
years and was succeeded by Delphina Whitman, who served 
until 1868. The last recorded meeting of the proprietors was 
holden June 27, 1868. E. W. Coffin was chosen Moderator and 
Kilbon Perham Clerk. Joshua Perham, Perrin Dudley and E. 
W. Coffin were chosen managers. Soon after this the organiza- 
tion was dissolved and the books were divided among the mem- 
bers. It existed as long as most voluntary organizations of this 
kind do, and no doubt accomplished much good to the denom- 
ination, as it brought many valuable denominational books within 
the reach of those who were not able to own them. 



THE METHODISTS. 

The early Methodists of Woodstock were the families of 
David Pvicker and Noah Curtis. Later, these were re-enforced 
by the Davis and Stephens families and others. The four 
named were strong and infiuential families, and left a numer- 



HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 81 

ous posterity, most of whom have adopted the religious views 
of their fathers. Jesse H. Stephens, son of Capt. Samuel, 
became quite a noted preacher of the Methodist denomination. 
For more than half a century they had no church edifice, but 
held their meetings, at first, in private houses, and in summer 
in barns, and later in the school houses. The first class was 
formed here about the year 1814, under the ministration of 
Rev. John Adams, and contained some fifteen members. This 
was the nucleus of the church and society which, next to the 
Baptist, became the most numerous religious society in town. 
The Fickett and Nute families, which came here from 1818 to 
1820, were Methodists. 

In 1856, a church edifice was erected in the lower part of 
the town, near Andrews' Mills, by the Methodists and Free 
Baptists. Subsequently, the Free Baptists built a house of 
worship at West Paris, and the Methodists became the exclusive 
owners of the church in Woodstock. The movers in the erec- 
tion of this church edifice and those who contributed the most 
liberally, were Adoniram Curtis and Orsamus Nute, both of 
whom have since left town, Chester D. Fickett, Nathan L. 
Marshall (a Free Baptist living in Paris), Joseph Davis and 
Rev. Levi Eldridge, who was at that time pastor of the Meth- 
odist church in Woodstock, The Methodists also had an in- 
terest in the church built mostly by the Baptists at Bryant's 
Pond, and for some years occupied it one-fourth of the time. 
Rev. George Briggs, who resided at Bryant's Pond, was the first 
minister under this arrangement. He has since deceased in 
Paris. 

Woodstock has never been a circuit of itself ; it has been at 
different periods united with Bethel, Rumford and Paris. The 
Maine Conference was organized in 1824 The records of the 
Woodstock church are so incomplete that it is impossible to 
give a list of all the ministers that have supplied here. In 
1830, the minister was M. Davis; 1831, J. Downing; 1832, B. 
Bryant; 1833, J. Stone; 1834, H. W. Latham; 1835, Dan 

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82 HISTOKY OF WOODSTOCK. 

Perry; 1836, W. Y. Farrington ; 1838, J. C. Perry; 1839, R 
Mitchell; 1840, D. F. Quinby ; 1843, Jonathan Fairbanks. 
Since that time the circuit has been supplied, among others, by 
J. Lull, M. B. Cummings, T. Whittier, Joseph Mooar, J. L. 
Frazier, A. Turner, Geo. Briggs, L. Eldridge, E. H. Ford, Mr. 
Fogg, J. Collins and E. Gerry. The present incumbent is Eev. 
G. B. Hannaford, a native of Winthrop. The church is now 
in a flourishing condition. 



MILLERISM. 

There is one chapter in the religious history of this town 
which the historian, if governed by his own wishes, would leave 
unwritten, but which, as an impartial chronicler of events, he 
would not be justified in omitting. It may reflect no real dis- 
credit upon that portion of our population who embraced the 
delusion about to be described, but it certainly exhibits, in a 
strong light, the weaknesses of human nature when influenced 
by emotions of fear, or when under the influence of intense 
religious excitement. Intelligence has little or nothing to do 
with it, for among the most fanatical of our town's people on 
this occasion, were those who had previously borne the highest 
character for sound judgment and practical common sense. In 
giving a brief account of the disreputable transactions which 
took place in this town during the year 1843, names will 'gen- 
erally be omitted. 

It was the preaching and writings of William Miller, who, 
from a study of the Book of Daniel and the Apocalypse, and a 
system of figuring not easily described, worked out and pro- 
claimed the second advent and the winding up of all things 
terrestrial in 1843. Miller was born in Pittsfield, Mass., in 
1780, and died in 1849. He was a farmer, moved to Low 
Hampton, N. Y., and began to preach his peculiar doctrines in 
1833. He traveled and preached and wrote, and his followers 



HISTOKY OF WOODSTOCK. 83 

at one time were reckoned about fifty thousand. Though pro- 
claimed for some years, the startHiig doctrines of Miller do not 
appear to have had any marked effect upon the people of this 
State until the year prior to the time when, if the doctrines 
were true, these great events were to take place. In 1842, 
lecturers who had embraced Miller's views came into this town, 
and spoke in the school houses, sometimes to quite large audi- 
ences, drawn out more from curiosity tlian anything else. At 
these lectures, charts were exhibited, with figures of the monsters 
described by the prophet Daniel, and intended for effect. 
Whether sincere or not, these speakers appeared to be terribly 
in earnest, as the writer can bear witness, wlio attended several 
of these lectures. To the superficial mind, their reasoning and 
reckoning appeared plausible, and this was the first class to 
embrace the delusion. After this, it spread like wildfire, making 
proselytes in every part of the town, and, as the time drew nigh, 
the excitement grew more and more intense. The proselytes 
to the new faith were mostly from the Methodist denomination, 
but there were many in other denominations who, while taking 
no active part, felt that the doctrine might be true. The result 
was that the cause of religion was stimulated in all denomina- 
tions. The Baptists largely increased their number of com- 
municants, and a Free Baptist church sprung up on the Gore 
and at North Woodstock, with nearly a hundred members. 
The most hardened disbelievers, under the immense pressure 
brought to bear, became temporarily softened, confessed their 
sins and joined the church. It may be added (for this Free 
Baptist church will not again be referred to) that in a little 
more than a year it began to melt away, and in eighteen months 
from the date of its organization no vestige of a church was 
left. Its pastor, during it# ephemeral existence, was a Eev. Mr. 
Keunerson, a young man who came here from New Hampshire. 
Rev. Mr. Hazeltine, of Bethel, also preached on the Gore, more 
or less, about that time. The Universalists, who do not believe 
in a future second advent, organized a church near the beginning 



84 HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 

of 1843, as a conservative movement, with a view, not so much of 
staying the progress of the delusion, for this was impossible, but 
of so influencing it that the town would receive the least possible 
harm from it. 

But the Millerites, as the time drew near, or many of them, 
seemed to be literally insane with excitement. Most of the 
farmers put in the seed for a crop in the spring of 1843, but 
many of them refused to harvest it in the autumn, and the 
town authorities wisely took the matter in hand and harvested 
the crops, and thus averted a partial famine. Work was neg- 
lected or suspended on many farms all through the season ; 
meetings were constantly held, and ascension robes were pre- 
pared for many. One of the peculiar tenets of the sect was a 
literal interpretation of the New Testament, wfiere the multi- 
tude are told that they must become as little children. A large 
tent was erected on the land of Benjamin Stephens, on the 
County road from Paris to Rumford, where their meetings were 
held, and where the most ludicrous, not to say disgusting proceed- 
ings were had. The floor was covered with straw, and upon it 
men and women, boys and girls would roll and tumble promis- 
cuously, imitating, to the best of their ability, the language and 
acts of young children. If they were traveling upon the high- 
way and happened to meet anyone not of their own belief, they 
would get down on their hands and knees and creep in the 
sand, imitatuig the sounds and motions of children who were 
too young to walk. Feet washing was one of the observances 
in the tent,^the hair being used as a towel. Sometimes a person 
would wake up in the night, pretending to be impressed with the 
duty to go and wash somebody's feet in a distant part of the town, 
and, faithful to the impression, he would immediately go to the 
place indicated, call the person up, perform the ceremony and 
return home. One man lost a child by death, and kept the remains 
in the house several months, with the expectation of being able to 
raise it from the dead. This man became violently insane and 
died by his own hand, a sad commentary on the form of faith 



HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 85 

he had embraced. But while these things were transpiring, 
there was a strong conservative element developed in town, 
which at length became aggressive, and determined that these 
disgusting scenes should be stopped. So strong was the pres- 
sure brought to bear, that many of their foolish practices were 
abandoned, and when after several days had been set for the final 
consummation of all things sublunary, and the world continued 
to move upon its axis, antl day continued to follow night in the 
usual way ; and finally when the year had passed away with- 
out bringing the world's crisis, their faith began to weaken, the 
excitement to subside, and gradually most of the deluded ones 
returned to their usual vocations. But the effects of the ex- 
citement showed themselves in various ways for some years 
after. Some of the families who had embraced the creed of 
Miller, returned to the bosom of the church from which they 
had strayed, but others adopted a modified form of faith, call- 
ing themselves Second Adventists, and continue to be known as 
such to the present time. It is but fair to say that they are 
respectable members of society, and none of them pretend to 
justify the performances growing out of the insane delusions of 
1843. 

TEMPERANCE, 

When Woodstock was first settled, and for many years after- 
wards, the sale of intoxicating liquors was unrestricted, and the 
use of them was everywhere common. No building could be 
raised without rum,. and liquor in some form was common in 
ahnost every household. The man who would furnish a gallon 
of New England rum for the use of those at work upon the 
highways, was credited a dollar on his highway taxes. The 
town furnished rum and whiskey at military trainings and for 
those employed on the repair of roads. The minister drank it, 
and it would have been deemed an act of inhospitality for the 
head of a family to allow the minister or a neighbor who had 



86 HISTOKY OF WOODSTOCK. 

called upon him, to depart without offering him intoxicating 
beverage to drink. It was an almost universal panacea for all 
ills ; no one could be born without it, and no one could die 
without having it provided for his funeral. Of course there 
were moderate drinkers and those who drank to excess in 
Woodstock, the same as in other towns, but there were few, if 
any, jn town who did not make use of more or less of it. It 
has been said that, as late as 1833, there was but one man in 
Woodstock who did not use intoxicating drinks, and that the 
only reason why he did not was because he loathed even 
the smell of it ; and it is added that he himself regarded this as 
a great misfortune. This may or may not be true, but all 
accounts go to show that the early settlers of this town were 
given to drink, and not a few of them to excessive drinking. 
Liquors and a few groceries were often kept for sale in private 
houses long before any store was opened here.. But Paris Hill 
stores furnished the great bulk of the liquor drank during those 
years. The first restriction upon the sale of liquors that appears 
on the records was in 1823, and this could hardly be called a 
restriction, for it only required those who wished to engage in 
the retail business to take out a license. In 1823, Eowse 
Bisbee and John K. Briggs were licensed to retail "strong 
liquors," and the latter was licensed every year thereafter for 
seven years. Eleazer C. Shaw was licensed in 1830, and for 
three years after ; Zephaniah B. Whitman and Learned Whit- 
man in 1833, William Cotton in 1834, and Welcome Kinsley, 
Edmund Chase and William Cotton in 1836. Briggs, Shaw 
and Kinsley were traders at Stephens' Mills, or " Woodstock 
Corner," as the hamlet was sometimes called, and this was the 
common resort for a majority of the male population of the 
town to assemble on Saturday afternoon and wrestle, pitch 
quoits, play ball, race horses and drink. These were the " good 
old days " that a few often referred to with regret after a large 
majority had realized the folly and wickedness of such a mode 
of life, and had banished intoxicating liquors from their homes. 



HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK, 87 

But Woodstock in its worst days was probably no worse than 
other towns in respect to its intemperance, and it reformed 
much earlier than some did. 

As showing the character of the restriction placed upon a re- 
tailer of strong liquors by the terms of his license, the following 
is here given : 

" Know all men by these presents, that we, William Cotton and Welcome 
Kinsley, within the to^vn of Woodstock and County of Oxford and State of 
Maine, are holden and stand firmly bound and obliged unto E. C. Shaw, 
Treasurer of said Woodstock, in Jthe full and just sum of three hundred 
dollars, to be paid to the said E. C. Shaw, or his successors in said office, to 
the true payment whereof we do bind ourselves, each of us, and our heirs, 
executors and administrators, jointly and severally, by these presents. Sealed 
with our seals, dated the twentieth day of September, in the year of our 
Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six. 

The condition of this obligation is such that whereas the above named 
William Cotton, having been duly licensed as a retailer, in said town of 
Woodstock, to retail strong liquors, from the above mentioned date till the 
second Monday of September, 18.37 : now if the said Cotton shall in all re- 
spects observe and conform himself to such rules and regulations in refer- 
ence thereto, as may be prescribed by the bond granting said license, and 
shall in no respect violate any of the provisions of the act for the regula- 
tion of innholders, retailers and common victualers, then the above written 
obligation shall be void and of no effect, else shall abide and remain in full 
lorce and virtue. 

" Signed, sealed and delivered in presence of us, 

Melvin Pool, Wm. Cotton, [l. s.] 

Charles Cotton. W. Kinsley, [l. s.] " 

The act here referred to was passed in 1833, and grew out of 
the efforts of the Maine State Temperance Society to stay the 
ravages which intemperance was making among all classes of 
our population. The licenses granted prior to this act were 
much less stringent, and in fact scarcely amounted to any re- 
striction at all. Where officers whose duty it is to enforce the 
law are themselves opposed to the law, and a frequent party to 
its violation, the law becomes a dead lettei. So the early 
statutes to regulate the sale of intoxicants, while complied with 
so far as to require bonds of innholders and common victualers, 



88 HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 

were wholly disregarded in their spirit and execution. Training 
days generally brought out most of the people in the town, and 
even an election of officers was often attended by many who had 
no special interest there beyond that of mere lookers-on. On all 
these occasions, ardent spirits flowed freely. Newly-elected 
officers who did not " wet " — nay, " flood " — their commissions, 
were considered mean, and were bounced the first opportunity. 
So far was this spirit carried out that it became burdensome, 
and it was often the case that a person in the line of promotion 
was obliged to decline it on account of the expense it involved. 
So the years glided by without any great change in the habits, 
of the people in this regard, or any apparent apprehension on 
the part of the many as to what the result might be. There 
were even at this period, that is, as early as 1825, men and 
women in some sections of the State and elsewhere, and es- 
pecially in the larger towns and cities, who had become alarmed 
at the prevalence of intemperance among the people, and who 
saw the need of organized effort to stay the progress of the 
destroyer. In 1827, the American Temperance Society was 
organized, and in 1832 the State Temperance Society held its 
first meeting in Augusta, presided over by the Governor of the 
State. Branches of this organization sprung up in various 
places ; there was one at North Paris, and Cornelius Perkins, 
Asa Thurlow, and possibly one or two others, became members. 
In 1836, Rev. Caleb B. Davis, of Paris, visited Woodstock and 
probably delivered the first public temperance address ever given 
in town. A society was formed, and Rev. Ransom Dunham, 
Sidney Perham, Alden Chase, Henry H. Packard, and other 
young men and women, became members. Elder Dunham was 
installed pastor of the Baptist church on Hamlin's Gore that 
year, and one of the Deacons of the church raised objections to 
him on the ground of his temperance principles. Indeed, the 
statistics gathered and reported at the State Temperance meet- 
ing referred to, showed that the habit of drinking enslaved 
Christian and worldling alike, and some of the reports went to 



HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 89 

show that in localities where efforts had been made to dispense 
with the stronger liquors, the most violent opposition to any^ 
limitation or restriction in the sale or use of intoxicants came 
from members of the churches. The same sentiment, to a great 
extent, prevailed among the church members of this town. It 
was regarded by the traders as an unwarrantable interference 
with their inalienable rights, to interfere with the traffic, and by 
the drinkers as a movement toward a sumptuary law, which 
should determine what they should and what they should not 
drink. 

But Woodstock had made some progress in various ways. 
More was being done for the education of youth, and a class of 
young people had come up who were much better educated 
than their parents, young men and women who had decided 
opinions of their own and who saw and felt the great need of 
a reform in the life-long, ingrained habits of the older portions 
of the population. They went into this new movement, and 
several of the young men became public speakers and lectured 
to people upon the subject of temperance in the several school 
districts in town. They found it difficult to combat the preju- 
dices of the habitual drinker and made but little progress, but 
they were all prepared to work, and needed only to have the 
ball set in motion by more experienced hands, to move against 
that enemy which had been as a blight and a mildew to the 
prosperity of their town since its earliest settlement. And the 
opportunity came at last. The Washingtonian movement, 
which began in a small way in Baltimore, gathered force as it 
advanced, and finally spread like wildfire through the New 
England States. It was the first organized movement in favor 
of total abstinence in this country, and was eminently success- 
ful. It reached the State of Maine and penetrated into the 
interior. It enlisted the sympathies and had the warm support 
of the pulpit and press. In no town in Maine was its work 
more effective and more lasting than in Woodstock. The 
young people sprang into the movement as a long wished for 



90 HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 

opportunity, and many of their elders were not. far behind them, 
probably a majority of the inhabitants took the pledge, and many 
past middle life, who had been partakers of the intoxicating cup 
from their youth, kept it sacred to the day of their death. In 
some towns, after the first excitement was over, many of the 
older people lapsed into their old ways, but it was not so here. 
A few may have done so and probably did, but most of them 
were true to their obligations, of which fact there is abundant 
proof. Among the early advocates of temperance in this town, 
none did more or better work than Sidney Perham. Born 
in 1819, he was hardly more than a boy when he began to 
talk ' temperance, from the total abstinence standpoint, in the 
school districts of the town and in the towns adjoining. Since 
that time he has been connected with every movement for the 
promotion -oi temperance and the suppression of the traffic in 
intoxicating liquors that has been made in the State, and as an 
efficient worker in this cause he has achieved a national reputa- 
tion. Associated with him in the work in Woodstock were 
many young men and women, who, in honoring the cause of 
humanity and progress, honored themselves as well. And these 
noble reformed men, who kept their plighted faith and worked 
with all their might to sustain the cause they had espoused, 
were entitled even to more credit than the others, for they were 
obliged first to break their shackles, which the young men had 
never worn. Since that time "Woodstock has been a temperance 
town, and whenever that issue has come up to be acted upon, 
the vote of this town has been on the right side. 

Several years before the passage of the first of our prohibitory 
laws, Woodstock was in favor of prohibition, as the record of 
one of the town meetings shows. It was in 1845 that an article 
was inserted in the warrant to the following effect : " To see if 
the town will instruct the Selectmen, Town Clerk and Treasurer 
to grant license to any persons to be retailers of rum, brandy, 
wine and gin, except for medicinal and mechanical purposes." 
Under this article the town ordered the question to be decided 



HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 91 

by yes and no, at the call of the Clerk, those in favor of licensing 
to answer yes, and those opposed, no. Those who were present 
and did not vote, the Clerk marked " neutral." He also noted 
the absentees as such, so that the lists which follow embrace 
every legal voter in the town at that time. This vote was taken 
during the transition state of public opinion upon tliis subject, 
and many who voted in favor of license, afterwards became 
decided prohibitionists. A man's general character, therefore, 
is not to be judged by the manner in which he voted, though it 
may be set down for certain that every drinking man voted in 
favor of a place where he could procure his beverage. 

Those who voted " Yes," or in favor of license, were : John 
Billings, Edward Bowker, Cyprian Bowker, Piram Bisbee, 
Luther Briggs, Joseph Bryant, 2d, Mahalon Bryant, Harvey 
Bowker, Bartholomew Cushman, Thomas C. CifShman, Josiah 
Churchill, Daniel Curtis, Morton Curtis, Seth Curtis, 2d, Alex- 
ander Day, Jr., Elijah Day, John Day, Eliphalet Davis, Gilman 
Farnum, Nathaniel J. Farnum, Ezekiel Fogg, Moses Houghton, 
Benjamin Jackson, John Lunt, Jr., Stephen Packard, Oliver 
Bobbins, 2d, John Starbird, Jr., Samuel Stephens, Fessenden 
Swan, Alanson M. Whitman, David York, D. P. Hannaford 
and Edmund Curtis, — 33. 

Those who voted " No," or against license, were : Cyrus 
Andrews, William Brooks, Silas Billings, Charles Billings, Jona- 
than Billings, Eli Bryant, Cyrus Bryant, Cyprian Bowker, Jr., 
James Bowker, Thomas G. Clark, John Clark, Geo. W. Cushman, 
Jonathan Cole, Alfred Chase, Alden-Chase, Merrill Chase, Daniel 
Curtis, 2d, Thomas B. Carter, Benjamin Davis, Stephen Davis, 
Joseph Dunham, Daniel Dunham, Benaiah Dow, Jr., Henry 
Dunham, Gilbert T. Dudley, John M. Dunham, Eleazer Ellis, 
Simon Fickett, John G. Felt, Lewis Fuller, Calvin Jackson, 
Isaac F. Knight, Josiah J. Knight, Orsamus Nute, Seth Perkins, 
Joel Perham, Sidney Perham, Stephen Packard, Jr., Henry H. 
Packard, Daniel Perkins, Cyrus Perkins, Cornelius Perkins, 
Joshua Perham, Kilbon Perham, Azel Perham, Simeon Eowe, 



92 HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 

Merrill J. Eowe, David Eicker, Jr., Oliver Bobbins, Jr., James 
Euss, Samuel S. Swan, Jolin Thurlow, Joseph Whitman, Jacob 
Whitman, Bela Wyman, Seward Wyman, Nathaniel Getchell, 
Hosea B. Bisbee, Augustus Clark, Samuel DoUoff, Oren Glines, 
Peter Brooks and Philip Chandler, — 63. 

Those who were present and did not vote, and classed as 
" Neutral," were : Levi Churchill, Crosby Curtis, Alexander Day, 
Harvey Fuller, Jotham Perham, Gideon Swan, Eeuben Whit- 
man and Nathan L. Marshall, — 8. 

Voters in town not present and classed as "Absent," were : 
Eleazer C. Billings, Alexander Bryant, Joseph Bryant, Abijah 
Bryant, Samuel Bryant, John M. Bryant, Charles B. Brooks, 
Eowse Bisbee, Asa Barrows, John Cotton, John A. Caswell, Wm. 
Chamberlain, Edmund Chase, Adoniram Curtis, Eansom Dun- 
ham, Aaron D?ivis, Lorenzo Davis, Charles Davis, Joseph Davis, 
Sam'l Durell, Perrin Dudley, Harrison Doten, Jonathan Pickett, 
Jr., Samuel Farnum, John S. French, Thomas J. Heath, Joshua 
Heath, David Hasey, Welcome Kinsley, Solomon Leonard, 
Seneca Landers, Job Lurvey, John Lunt, Samuel Nute, Jacob 
Paine, Bartle Perry, Oliver Bobbins, William Eowe, David 
Eicker, Nathaniel Bobbins, Charles Bobbins, Nathaniel Bob- 
bins, Jr., Newel F. Eowe, Joseph Eussell, Edmund Swan, Ben- 
jamin Stephens, Jesse H. Stephens, William Swan, Sylvanus 
Stubbs, Nathan Stubbs, Asa Thurlow, Samuel Thorn, Oilman 
Tuell, Albion K. P. Whitman, Joseph Whitman, 2d, Luther 
Whitman, Luther Whitman, Jr., Zephaniah B. Whitman, 
Amos Green, Silas Doane and Samuel Adams, — 68. 

The temperance cause was popular and strong in Woodstock 
at this time, and continued to strengthen and increase. Local 
temperance societies were formed in neighborhoods and school 
districts, and a large majority of the young men and women be- 
came not only interested but active workers in the cause. The 
first meeting of the order of the Sons of Temperance was held 
in Teetotaller's Hall, No. 71 Division Street, New York, on 
Thursday evening, September 29, 1842. It was started as a 



HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 93 

mutual aid society, that poor reformers, who were dependent on 
their labor for their support, might be able to provide themselves 
with sustenance in sickness, by placing a portion of their earn- 
ings when well, where it would be available. A meeting at the 
same place was held October 7, 1842, when the first officers 
were elected. They were : Patriarch, Daniel Sands ; Associate, 
Ephraim L. Snow ; Eecording Scribe, John W. Oliver ; Finan- 
cial Scribe, James Bale ; Treasurer, George McKibbin ; Con- 
ductor, Thomas Edgerley ; Sentinel, Thomas Swenarton. From 
this small beginning, the order spread very rapidly. Its secret 
character, and its feature of m^itual aid, gave it a popularity that 
no temperance organization had ever before enjoyed. 

The first Division in Maine was organized at Foxcroft, De- 
cember 24, 1844, called Piscataquis Lodge, No. 1. On the 
fourth of January, 1845, Franklin Division, No. 2, was instituted 
in Augusta. By the twenty-eighth of March following. Di- 
visions were organized at Gardiner, Hampden, Hallowell and 
Dexter, and measures were at once taken to organize a Grand 
Lodge of the State. This was accomplished at the Hall of 
Franklin Division in Augusta, April 16, 1845, with the following 
officers : G. W. Patriarch, Charles Freeman ; G. W. Associate, 
S. B. Dockham ; Grand Scribe, Ariel Wall ; Grand Treasurer, 
Alexander Kincaid ; Grand Chaplain, Eev. J. P. Weston ; Grand 
Conductor, Eev. H. P. Bradbury ; Grand Sentinel, E. M. Smiley. 
During the year 1845, thirty-six new Divisions were opened in 
Maine. In 1846, Thomas H. Sanford, of Bangor, was elected 
G. W." Patriarch, and John E. Godfrey, of Bangor, Grand Scribe. 
In 1847, Eev. J. P. Weston, of Gardiner, G. W. Patriarch, and 
John H. Hartford, of Augusta, Grand Scribe. In March, 1848, 
there were 110 Divisions in Maine, with an active membership 
of 7,000, and the order was rapidly increasing. 

It was in 1850 that active measures were taken to establish 
the order in Oxford County. Norway Division was No. 150, 
Eumford 146, and the first meeting for the establishment of 
Atlantic Division, No. 159, was held at North Woodstock, on 



94 HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 

the first day of February, 1851. Delegations were present from 
the Norway and Eumford Divisions, and Wm. Wirt Virgin, as 
Deputy Grand Worthy Patriarch, was present to initiate the 
applicants, institute the Division and install the officers. The 
following were the applicants for this Division : Chauncey C. 
Whitman, Eufus K. Dunham, John M. Gallison, Horace Cush- 
man, John G. Felt, Eansom Dunham, Cyrus Goud, Samuel 
Bailey, Sullivan A. Estes, Eli Bryant, Alden Chase, EUery 
Eowe, Ansel Moody, Joshua Perham, Joel Perham, Jr., Anson 
G. Bowker and Geo. W. Cushman. The following officers were 
duly elected and installed : Worthy Patriarch, Geo. W. Cush- 
man ; . Worthy Associate, Chauncey C. Whitman ; Eecording 
Scribe, Alden Chase ; Assistant Eec. Scribe, Ansel Moody ; 
Financial Scribe, Sullivan A. Estes ; Treasurer, Eli Bryant ; 
Conductor, Samuel Bailey ; Assistant Conductor, Joshua Per- 
ham ; Inside Sentinel, John G. Felt ; Outside Sentinel, John M. 
Gallison. This became a very flourishing Division, and em- 
braced in its membership many of the leading men of the town. 
On the fourth day of July, 1852, a grand temperance celebra- 
tion was held at North Woodstock, which was largely attended. 
One of the interesting incidents of the occasion was the pre- 
sentation of a banner and bible to Atlantic Division, by the 
ladies of Woodstock. The presentation of the banner was 
made by Miss Martha E. Perham, now Mrs. Stephen C. Davis, 
who spoke in terms as follows : 

"Brother, you are engaged in a cause of intense interest to our sex ; one 
that enlists our deepest feelings, and involves the weal or v?oe of thfe whole 
human race. The fiendish tyrant swayed his dread sceptre over this fertile 
land, until the thrilling cry of agony was heard from every quarter! Mercy ! 
mercy ! sprang from the inmost recesses of their hearts ; but the fierce Kmg 
heeded them not ; for his mission was to devastate this beautiful land. 

"A few strong-minded, noble souls, hearing the cry of anguish, armed them- 
selves for the contest — whilst thousands of others joined the ranks-.-deter- 
mined to overthrow King Alcohol, and relieve suffering humanity. 

" Though they toiled manfully in this benevolent cause, though they gained 
many and powerful victories, yet the fell destroyer had taken such deep 
root, and held such absolute povk'er over many, that it was years ere the 



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most sanguine dared to indulge the hope of seeing the glorious time that we 
now enjoy. 

" The majestic tree of temperance has taken deep root in these United 
States. It is watered by the widow's and orphan's tears ; also doubly 
watered by the heart's life-blood of the drunkard's wife. Its vigorous growth 
is ten-fold increased by the invincible ' Sons of Temperance.' 

" It has spread over every part of the Union. Its branches already extend 
from the lofty mountains of the West to our own New England ; from the 
tranquil lakes on the North to the expansive gulf on the South ; and may it 
soon drop its balmy leaves upon every despairing heart. 

" The ' Tree of black Intemperance ' has begun to decay. The noble sons 
have taken ax in hand and have commenced operations against that tree, 
slowly, deliberately, fatally ! A little more than a year ago you united your- 
selves in a little band in our midst, and the rumsellers know full well that 
where such a band of brave, patriotic, unconquerable sons exist, there they 
must quit their demonish, unlawful traffic. 

" The glorious Sun has arisen in Maine, and its luminous rays reach even 
the Old World. Two years since our little State was scarcely known out of 
New England ; now, for the noble Temperance Law she has enacted, she 
stands out in bold relief from her sister States ; and her fame extends over 
the whole world. Some of her sisters have followed in her footsteps ; others 
are preparing to do the same ; and the time is not far distant when every 
State will join the band. 

" We are aware that you have engaged the most intellect-withering, moral- 
degrading and domestic-blighting foe that ever scathed our land. He sets 
fire to the brain and transforms the eminent man into the basest brute. He 
will not be moved by reason or compassion, neither will he yield to the en- 
treaties of an Angel from Heaven. 

" You have a great work to accomplish to drive this cruel monster from 
our land. If you would gain the victory, you must put forth your whole 
energy ; never shrink from the contest ; always foremost in the battle : and 
unflinchingly exterminate that demon of demons. Stand firm to your trust 
brothers, though all but Heaven forsake you. Onward ye brave sons ! On- 
ward to victory ! ! You have the tears of orphans, the prayers of widows, the 
sympathies and smiles of approbation of every true American female, and 
the blessings of our dearest Father in Heaven ! 

" I now present to your Division this ' Banner ' in behalf of the ladies of 
Woodstock and vicinity, expressive of their sympathy and deep interest in 
your future prosperity. May you march steadfastly onward under this 
Banner, until the throne of Alcohol is crumbled to dust." 

Sidney Perham, Esq., in behalf of the Division, responded as 
follows : 



96 HISTOEY OF WOODSTOCK. 

" In receiving this beautiful Banner, I can but express to you and your 
associates the unfeigned and sincere thanks of Atlantic Division, for this 
token of your confidence and pledge of your sympathy and co-operation. 
• Coming, as it does, from the hearts of many who, though virtuous them- 
selves, have felt keenly and bitterly the sting of intemperance, and who, in 
the midst of joy for the reformation of their husbands and sons, fathers and- 
brothers, are desirous of presenting some substantial token of their esteem 
and regard, it is most gratefully and thankfully received. 

"In looking on this happy audience, I cannot prevent the reflection that a 
happy change has come over this community. Time was when the demon, 
whose ' mission is to destroy,' made sad ravages among us. The black cloud 
of intemperance hovered fearfully around us, often bursting with over- 
whelming influence on the head of some unfortunate human being, blasting 
all his hopes for the future, and reducing himself, and those dependent on 
him for protection, to a state of wretchedness, degradation and woe. But 
the misery of those unfortunate beings, the tears and prayers of broken- 
hearted females, the cries and wailings of unhappy children, neglected by 
those whom the ties of nature had bound to counsel and support them, have 
reached the ears of philanthropic men and the Throne of the Great Eternal. 
A voice, emanating as we believe from Heaven, has gone forth from the 
various temperance organizations, proclaiming the glad tidings, 'The drunkard 
can he saved,' carrying joy and gladness to many despairing hearts. Thou- 
sands have been rescued from inebriety and restored to their families and 
society. Men, once degraded, have become happy. Men from whose lips 
proceeded cursing and blasphemy, withering and blasting the morals of all 
coming within their influence, have become devoted Christians. Families, 
once miserable and wretched, have exchanged the spirit of sadness for that 
of joy. The cup of bitterness, which many an unhappy wife or mother has 
been compelled to drink to its very dregs, has been filled with gratitude and 
hope. Children, once surrounded by base and unholy influences, are now 
protected and cared for by Christian parents. 

"Notwithstanding all this, we muat not lay aside our armor nor think the 
victory won. Much yet remains to be done. • Prejudice, avarice and appe- 
tite are yet to be overcome. Willful ignorance, that deadly foe to all human 
progress, still prevents too many from looking beyond the ' Good old ways of 
the fathers.' Many men, even in this day of light and knowledge, have no 
higher views of republican liberty than that it guarantees to them the right 
to drink and be drunken, to sell and get gain. Such persons are expected to 
treat with scorn and contempt every movement which restricts, in the least 
degree, the vilest appetites and passions of man. Such principles, however, 
are soon to give place to higher and nobler sentiments ; and we look forward 
confidently to the time when principles, so disgraceful to human nature, shall 
be numbered among ' the things that were.' 

"Permit me, humbly and reverently, to express the belief that the 'Order 



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of the Sons of Temperance,' to which you have so beautifully referred, has 
been an instrument, in the hands of God, in establishing the happy, temper- 
ate state of society which we now enjoy. And, looking confidently to Him 
who has blessed our humble efforts in times past, we are determined to 
' work on and work ever,' until intemperance, with its long black catalogue 
of misery, destitution and crune shall be known only in the blood-stained 
chronicles, and the sad memories of the sad past. And while we are per- 
mitted to rally around this banner i while the pure fountain of living water, 
there so beautifully portrayed, continues to flow; while our hearts shall be 
actuated by the principles of ' Love, Purity and Fidelity,' {vhile we are per- 
mitted to read that sentiment, that prayer, 'Prosperity attend our cause,' 
ascending to high Heaven from our wives and daughters, our mothers and 
sisters, we promise yiever to ease our efforts, never to give over the struggle, 
so long as one unfortunate inebriate remains to be saved, or one unhappy 
wife or mother implores our aid. 

" In conclusion, respected sisters, we hail you as co-workers in this glorious 
cause, expressing the hope, the prayer to God, that your generous hearts 
may never be made sad, that tears of sorrow may never flow from your eyes, 
in consequence of the drunkenness of a husband or son, a father or brother." 

In presenting the Bible, Mrs. Harriet N. Caswell spoke as 
follows : 

" I am happy to meet you in behalf of the ladies of Woodstock and vicinity, 
to express through you to the Atlantic Division of the Sons of Temperance 
the deep interest we feel in the progress of moral reform, and that we duly 
appreciate the good results that you and the different Orders of your Fra- 
ternity are accomplishing by your unceasing labors in the cause of temper- 
ance. 

" Your labors are arduous ; you are contending with an enemy that has 
long held almost absolute sway over the minds of the community, upheld by 
public opinion and universal use ; and though the use of alcohol in all its 
various forms rendered thousands miserable, blasting, like the poisonous 
Simoons of the desert, the health, happiness and peace of the people, de- 
stroying the brightest intellect and crushing the fondest hopes of man by its 
withering influence ; yet the people were blinded — a darkness that could be 
felt covered the land, and alcohol reigned triumphant. 

" Nor was man alone the only sufferer ; woman was crushed beneath his 
despotic rule. His deleterious influence was felt in the family circle, none 
the less afflicting because silently endured and uncomplainingly borne — de- 
•stroyiug her fondest hopes of happiness, crusliing her brightest anticipations, 
sundering the dearest affections of the heart, depriving the fond mother of 
her choicest treasure by entering her dwelling and tearing that treasure 
fi'om her bosom whose presence lighted up her countenance with joy, and 
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98 HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 

piercing her with the keenest anguish at beholding a father, a husband, or 
brother a groveling worshiper at the shrine of Bacchus, ruined and degraded, 
morally and intellectually. 

" But the star of temperance has arisen. Its light has illumined the dark- 
ened minds of countless thousands, who have long been held in abject 
slavery ; and its mild, invigorating beams have brought life, happiness and 
peace into families in which those blessings have long been strangers. 

"To your Order, more than to any oflier source, may those blessings be 
ascribed. By your untiring efforts, energetic zeal and determined persever- 
ance, you have tnade glad the hearts of thousands, and thousands more are 
destined to feel the salutary influence of your praiseworthy deeds. May 
success crown your glorious cause. Our blessings shall attend you for 
guarding our homes from the intrusions of intemperance, and securing to us 
unsullied reputations of those we hold most dear. 

" But the warfare is not yet ended ; much yet remains to be done ; for in- 
temperance is still among us. Let not the strife cease on your part, until 
the last vestige of alcohol is effaced and our fair laud freed from its contam- 
inating influence. You have much to encourage you to action. The sympa- 
thies of the virtuous and good are with you. You are aided by a just en- 
actment, the more highly prized, as it originated in our own loved State. 
Show, then, your respect to the Legislature from which it emanated, by 
strictly enforcing it, and thereby encourage those sister States that have 
already endorsed it. Shrink not from your whole duty, until suffering 
humanity ceases to demand your efforts. You have already effected a noble 
work. Let your past deeds of virtue incite you to still more energetic acts ; 
and though many may censure and refuse to assist in your works of benevo- 
lence, yet thousands duly appreciate your worthy motives; and future gen- 
erations will bless you for your untiring efforts to emancipate the world from 
the blighting effects of intemperance. Countless thousands are enlisting 
under your banner to aid in the downfall of the demon alcohol ; proving by 
their example, that they seek for happiness in a higher sphere than intem- 
perance affords — in benevolent deeds and philanthropic acts. 

"Brothers, let your course be onward. Continue to walk hand in hand as 
conscience dictates and virtue directs, till victory proudly triumphs on your 
unsullied banner of temperance, never to be furled till the dark stains of in- 
temperance are forever obliterated from the moral and intellectual condition 
of man. Then be united in this work. Our trust is still with you, to shield 
us from the insidious foe, intemperance — to keep our delightsome homes un- 
contaminated and free from its direful influence. Shall we be disappointed ? 
"We answer no ! Will you cease in your struggles and suffer the demon 
alcohol to enter our peaceful dwellings and render them dreary, desolate and 
cheerless ? With all confidence in you we answer decidedly and em- 
phatically. No ! Never ! ! 

" We cordially greet you as brothers in this noble cause ; and while you, 



HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 99 

■with true courage and laudable emulations, fight the battle of temperance, 
be assured the daughters of temperance will never prove treacherous, nor 
forsake you in any emergency. 

" With this confidence in you, we present to you this token, the Holy Bible, 
in approbation of your labors of love. Let this faithful monitor ever remind 
you to walk uprightly in your high and commendable station — teach you 
' love ' and good will to your fellow men — 'purity' of motives in all your 
acts of life, and ' fidelity ' to your brethren and the cause yau have so honor- 
ably espoused. As a guide, it will point to Heaven and lead the way — direct 
you in the paths of virtue — strengthen you in the day of adversity — guard 
you against the wiles of the enemy — teach you wisdom and prudence in all 
your undertakings — and lead you to happiness superlative and perfect. 

" Receive it, then, as a token of our esteem for your Order, and may its pre- 
cepts be so received and cherished that you may ultimately be received into 
that fraternal circle of which He, whose word this is, will alone be and ever 
remain Worthy." 

Eev. Eansom Dunham replied as follows : 

"We have assembled here on this, our nation's anniversary, and have en- 
gaged in promoting the holy cause of temperance, ^nd it becomes my duty, 
on this occasion, in behalf of Atlantic Division of the Sons of Temperance, 
to present to you and the ladies of Woodstock, our most cordial thanks for 
the valuable treasure you have conferred upon us. It is the word of life. 
It contains a perfect rule for our practice. It is a light to our patli and a 
lamp to our feet. It is able to make us wise through faith unto salvation. 
And while we walk in accordance witli its divine precepts, aided by your in- 
fluence, we are conscious that no weapon formed against us can ever prosper. 
It is true, amid all the light, the blessings and privileges Heaven has be- 
stowed on us as a nation, an enemy, that dread monster, intemperance, has 
invaded our land, and brought down upon us death and degradation. He 
has entered your domestic circles and driven from your firesides that peace 
and tranquillity you once enjoyed. He has blighted the fondest hopes of our 
mothers, wives and daughters. He has entered our lialls of legislation and 
senate chambers, and threatened to overthrow the liberties we this day 
enjoy ; and alas ! his perfume has too oft been found in the sacred desk ! 
Amid all the moral darkness that has covered the earth and the gross dark- 
ness which has covered the people, beams of light have shone from Heaven 
upon the understandings of a portion of our fellow men. These good men, 
devout men, moved forward in the early part of this century ; and amid all 
the opposition, toiled manfully to expel that dread monster from our land. 
They were soon aided by the heroes from Baltimore, and more recently by 
the Watchman Club, and our fraternal band. We are solemnly obligated 
and stand before you all pledged men ; and you may rest assured that we 



^QQ HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 

shall never leave the field until that foe is driven from our land. In conclu- 
sion, may you so move as to meet the approbation of God; and may H.s 
blessings rest upon you and your posterity." 

After Bryant's Pond Village became an important center of 
business, and many of the leading members of the Division had 
moved there, the Lodge itself was moved, and there it contmned 
to ilonrish for a while, when, in common with many others in . 
the State, the novelty having worn off and the mutual pecuniary 
aid feature proving to be impracticable, it began to dechne, and 
previous to 1860 the charter was surrendered and its name and 
number dropped from the list of Lodges in the State. 

After this, there were several open temperance organizations 
formed in different parts of the town, such as branches of the 
Oxford County League, &c., and the leading men m the cause 
were always active. Associated effort had declined somewhat, 
but so strong a public sentiment in favor of total abstinence 
had been developed, that drinking was very unpopular and m- 
dul-ed in- only in secret. Whenever temperance or prohibition 
was^in any way an issue in politics, the vote was always over- 
whelmingly on the right side. 

A charter' for a Lodge of Good Templars at Bryant's Pond, 
was granted by Nelson Dingley, Jr., Grand Worthy Chief 
Templar, and issued by F.G. Eich, Grand Worthy Secretary, 
Oct 14 1867. Unlike the Order of the Sons of Temperance, 
this order admitted both males and females, and had superseded 
. the previous organization in many localities. The petitioners 
for this Lodge were Kev. E. W. Coffin, W. B. Lapham, Albert 
Bolster, Alanson M. Trull, Frank W. Lapham, Aldana Whit- 
man, Willie Small, Henry Berry, Ansel Dudley, Mary E. W. 
Coffin, Betsey Bolster, Eliza A. Jacobs, Mary Coffin, Augusta 
Burgess, Lizzie Rowe, Helen Bolster, Areanna Jacobs, Sarah 
Bowker Elizabeth Richards, Louisa Jordan, Nathaniel W. 
Corliss and Mrs. M. A. Libby. The Lodge was organized m 
due form by Joel Perham, Jr., Deputy Grand Worthy Chief 
Templar, and the following officers were elected and duly in- 



HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 101 

stalled : Worthy Chief Templar, Wm. B. Lapham ; Worthy 
Vice Templar, Mary E. W. Coffin ; Worthy Secretary, Albert 
C. Bolster ; W. F. Secretary, Areanna Jacobs ; W. Treasurer, 
Alanson M. Trull ; W. Marshal, Frank W. Lapham ; W. Chap- 
lain, Eev. Ezekiel W. Coffin ; W. I. Guard, Lizzie Eowe ; W. 0. 
Guard, Ansel Dudley. The following were the appointed officers : 
W. A. Secretary, Mary Coffin ; W. A. Marshal, Augusta Burgess ; 
W. E. Supporter, Mrs. Elizabeth Eichards ; W. L. Supporter, 
Mrs. Sarah Bowker. The Lodge was named Mt. Christopher 
Lodge, No. 10, taking the number of some defunct Lodge. The 
Lodge prospered and had a large membership, but after a season, 
internal disagreements and dissensions began to be developed, 
the interest began to decline, some of the hard cases, which for 
a time had been restained from drinking, returned to it, and 
finally the organization was dislmnded. The last recorded 
meeting under the old charter was holden March 24, 1871. 
The meetings of the Lodge were held first in Stephens' Hall, 
and afterwards in the second story of the school house. After 
remaining defunct for a few years, the Lodge was revived under 
a new charter, and had a season of prosperity, when it again 
became dormant. 

A Eeform Club was organized at Bryant's Pond in 1875, and 
still continues its organization. In connection with the Ladies' 
Aid, it has accomplished much good. The ball was set in 
motion by the Auburn Eeform Club, which visited this place 
and held a meeting December 12, 1875. The meeting was 
held hi the Baptist Church, and Jefferson Lodge of Masons and 
the Ladies' Sewing Circle, whose meetings occurred on the same 
evening, both adjourned to attend the reform meeting at the 
church. Sixty signatures to the iron-clad pledge were obtained 
at this meeting, and it resulted in the organization of the 
Bryant's Pond Club, with Ezra Jewell, Esq., as President. No 
regular records of the club have been kept, but its work has 
been important in. the temperance field, many of its chief 
workers having been men who had previously been more or 



102 HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 

less intemperate. The ladies have rendered valuable aid, as 
they always do in temperance movements. 

Probably in no town in Maine is public sentiment educated 
up to a higher standard upon this question than in Woodstock, 
but it is the result of persistent, untiring labor on the part of 
the friends of temperance and morality for more than forty 
years. At first, and for several years, it was a hand to hand 
contest, but since the opponents of temperance and prohibition 
became a minority, and could be easily beaten at the polls 
whenever an issue was made, it has-not been a contest, but a 
watch and a work, to see that the cause does not lapse, and 
public sentiment, with the influx of new citizens, does not 
receive a set-back. Some of those who were active in promoting 
temperance have left town and are working in other fields, and 
many of the early workers in this field have gone the way of 
all the earth, but the influence of their lives and their labors 
remain to encourage and cheer on those who are still engaged 
in the humane endeavor to save men from the results of their 
own depraved appetites. " These being dead, yet speak." It 
is the duty of the people of this goodly town, both present and 
future, to continue the work so nobly begun and so earnestly 
carried on by their fathers, so long as men are to be saved from 
the thralldom of this sin — and that will probably be as long as 
humanity exists. Let each in his day and generation see that 
the holy cause of temperance receives no detriment through 
any act or neglect of his or hers. Eeniember the dark clouds 
of intemperance that once draped these hills and shrouded 
these valleys, and think of the persistent effort, the untiring 
labor it costs to free the inebriate from the thralldom of the 
intoxicating cup. The evil, thanks to the workers both past 
and present, is as much under subjection here as in any town 
of its size, population and business in the State ; be it yours to 
keep it so, and as years of associated work was the price paid 
for your emancipation from this evil of evils, so is constant vig- 
ilance the price that must be paid for preserving your freedom. 



HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 103 

SCHOOLS. 

Woodstock had been settled sixteen years before the establish- 
ment of public schools. For two years after the two half town- 
ships had united and organized for plantation purposes, while 
considerable sums were raised for the repair of roads, the in- 
habitants refused to raise a dollar for the support of schools. 
There were then forty or more families in the plantation and 
more than a hundred scholars. The neglect to raise money for 
educational purposes can be accounted for only'on the score of 
poverty. They must keep their roads passable or do worse, but 
they were not obliged to raise money for the support of schools, 
or, if they were, they did not have the saine reason to fear that 
the law would be enforced against them. David Eicker says : 
" The first school in Woodstock was kept by Polly Bird, of Paris 
or Norway, in 1815 ; I attended this school, and it was the first 
one I ever attended or heard of." As one hundred dollars were 
raised for the support of schools at the March meeting in 1814, 
and at a meeting held on the twenty-ninth of the same month, 
it was " voted to accept of the school districts as districted by 
the assessors," it is quite probable that schools were established 
in the summer of 1814. The'sum raised this year and for the 
several subsequent years was very small, considering that there 
were five districts in town, but it was probably all they could 
afford. In later days, Woodstock has been very liberal in the 
support of education, and fully made up for the delinquency of 
their ancestors, if delinquency it can be called. The first 
division of the plantation into school districts was made in 
1814, and was made by grouping families, without any reference 
to unsettled lands. The report of the committee appointed for 
that purpose is as follows : 

" WTiereas, it is necessary that the Plantation Number Three be divided 
into districts, for the convenience of schools therein, v?e recommend that 
districts be fonned in the manner following : 

"The families of Noah Curtis, Morton Curtis, Seth Curtis, Isaac Cummings 
[he lived just over the line in Greenwood], Luther Briggs, David Ricker, 



104 HISTOEY OF WOODSTOCK. 

Stephen Chase, Merrill Chase, Aaron Davis, Asa Thurlow, Amos Thurlow 
and Enoch Hammond, shall constitute one district, to be called the first 
western district. 

"The families of Alexander Day, Jacob Whitman, Christopher Bryant, 
Luther Whitman, Gideon Swan, Solomon Bryant, William Swan and Samuel 
Bryant, shall constitute one district, to be called the middle western district. 

" The families of Jotham Perham, Rowse Bisbee, Joseph Whitman, Joseph 
Cole, John Billings, Lucy Felt, Noah Curtis, Jr., Lemuel Perham and Lemuel 
Perham, Jr., shall constitute one district, to be called the second western 
district. 

"The families jf William Cotton, Cornelius Perkins, Richard Green, 
Benaiah Dow, David Dow and Lydia Dunham, shall constitute one district, 
to be called the first eastern district. 

"The families of John Gray, Jr., Benj. Fobes, Lazarus Rand, George 
Townsend, George Townsend, Jr., and Josiah Dudley, shall constitute one 
district, to be called the second eastern district." 

This arrangement was in force for only two years, when, by 
vote of the town, another districting was made and accepted, as 
follows : 

FiEST DiSTKiCT. The families of Lemuel Perham, Lemuel 
Perham, Jr., Eowse Bisbee, Jotham Perham, Thomas Farrow, 
Joseph Whitman, Joseph' Clifford, John Billings, Edward 
Lothrop, Merrill Chase and Noah Curtis, Jr., and all who may 
hereafter come within the limits of said district. 

Second District. The families of Solomon Bryant, Wm. 
Swan, Gideon Swan, Lucy Swan, Luther "Whitman, Christopher 
Bryant, Jacob Wliitman, Alexander Day and Solomon Bryant. 

Third District. The families of Noah Curtis, Morton Curtis, 
Seth Curtis, Asa Thurlow, Amos Thurlow, Aaron Davis, Aaron 
Davis, Jr., Josiah Churchill, Stephen Chase, David Bicker, 
Richard Green, Luther Briggs and Consider Fuller. 

Fourth District. The families of Cornelius Perkins, Wm. 
Cotton, Enoch Hammond, Benaiah Dow, David Dow and Lydia 
Dunham. 

Fifth District. The families of John Gray, Jr., Benj. Fobes, 
Lazarus Ptand, Geo. Townsend, Geo. Townsend, Jr., Thayer 
■ Townsend, Josiah Dudley, John Starbird, Daniel Dacy and 
John Lunt. 



HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. * 105 

Tlie town was re-districted again in 1820, not only with re- 
gard to families but with reference to unsettled lands. The 
committee, " after establishing the territorial limits of each dis- 
trict by metes and bounds, reported the several districts by 
families, as follows " : 

Samuel Bryant, Alexander Day, Jacob Whitman, Samuel 
Stepliens, Gideon Swan, Luther Whitman, George Berry, Thomas 
E. Carman, William Swan, Oliver Swan, William Swan, Jr., 
John R. Briggs, Solomon Bryant and Artemas Felt, with their 
families, constitute the first district. 

Asa Thurlow, Amos Tlmrlow, Noah Curtis, Morton Curtis, 
Seth Curtis, Daniel Curtis, Luther Briggs, Abner Dolloff, David 
Kicker, Stephen Chase, Wm. E. Brooks, Charles B. Brooks, 
Jonathan Fickett, Consider Fuller, Josiah Churchill, Aaron 
Davis and Aaron Davis, Jr., and their families, to constitute 
the second district. 

Charles Curtis, ' Seneca Landers, Noah Curtis, Jr., Stephen 
Packard, Edward Lothrop, Joseph Whitman, Jonathan Cole, 
John Billings, Caleb Bessee, Merrill Chase, Eowse Bisbee, 
Cyprian Bowker, Jeremiah Felt, Joel Perham and Jotham 
Perham, with their families, to constitute the third district. 

Samuel Dunham, Samuel Durell, Wm. Davis, Cornelius 
Perkins, Wm. Cotton, Enoch Hammond and Lemuel Perham, 
and their families, to constitute and be called the fourth dis- 
trict. 

Josiah Dudley, Moses Dudley, John Gray, John Starbird, 
Benaiah Dow, Azariah Howard, John Lunt, Betsey Eand and 
Daniel Dacy, with their families, to constitute and be called the 
fifth school district in the town of Woodstock. 

For some reason or other this districting was not satisfactory, 
and another was ordered in 1822, and accepted at a meeting 
holdeu March 16th of that year. It was as follows : 

" The families of Alexander Day, Jacob Whitman, Samuel Stephens, Luther 
Whitman, Gideon Swan, William Swan, William Swan, Jr., Solomon Bryant 
and David Kicker, to constitute the first district. 



106 HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 

" The families of Daniel Dudley, Luther Briggs, Morton Curtis, Seth Curtis, 
Noah Curtis, Job Lurvey, Amos Thurlow, Asa Thurlow, Aaron Davis, Aaron 
Davis, Jr., Josiah Churchill, Abner DoUoff, Stephen Chase, Wm. E. Brooks, 
Jonathan Fickett and Samuel Nute, to constitute the second district. 

"The families of Charles Curtis, David Dudley, Seneca Landers, Stephen 
Packard, Merrill Chase, Merrill Chase, Jr., Joel Perham, Jeremiah Felt, 
Jotham Perham, Cyprian Bovv'ker, Joseph Whitman and Jonathan Cole, to 
constitute the third district. 

" The families of John K. Briggs, Oliver Sv^'an and Samuel Bryant to con- 
stitute the fourth district. 

"The families of John Billings, Caleb Bessee, RovFse Bisbee and Thomas 
Farrow to constitute the fifth district. 

" The families of William Davis, Joseph Bryant, Wm. Cotton, Enoch Ham- 
mond, Cornelius Perkins, Levpis Fuller, John Merrill, Luther Perkins, Jona- 
than Billings, Lemuel Perham and Luther Whitman, Jr., to constitute the 
sixth district. 

"The families of John Gray, John Starbird, Benaiah Dow, Moses Dudley, 
Azariah Howard, Josiah Dudley, Samuel Durell, Antepast Durell and Samuel 
Dunham, to constitute the seventh district. 

" The families of Daniel Dacy, John Lunt, Sylvanus Dunham, J. Moore 
and William Rand, to constitute the eighth district." 

The ninth district was made up of a section of territory in 
the north-east corner of the east part of Woodstock, and at the 
time of this districting contained no inhabitants. 

The tenth district embraced the territory at the north-west 
corner of the east part of the town, and had no inhabitants at 
that time. It has since been divided, and forms the schools in 
the Billings district and in Sigotch. The committee to re- 
district on this occasion was made up of Seth Curtis, Josiah 
Dudley, Jonathan Cole, Luther Whitman and John Merrill, 
and was the last formal districting that was ever made. 

In 1823, the town voted to unite the 6th and 7th districts. 
In 1826, the second district was divided and the center district 
formed. In 1834, William Eowe, Simeon Eowe and Enoch 
French were set off from district number 3 to district number 
5. The same year, Cornelius Perkins, Lewis Fuller, William 
Cotton, Jr., Charles Eobbins and Enoch Hammond were set off 
from district number 7 to number 6. In 1842, the town voted 
to set off Eichard T. Lurvey, with his property, from the second 



HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 107 

school district to form and constitute a school district by him- 
self. In 1843, the large district in the north-east part of the 
town was divided, forming the Billings and Sigotch districts. 
The same year a school district was formed from part of the 
old 9th, "running from the 78th to the 113th lot, on the north 
line of the town, and on the south line of said district from lot 
number 82 to 109." In 1845, the 8th district was divided by 
taking of lots numbers 92, 85 and 71, and " continuing north- 
westerly to the district where Edmund Chase now lives." 

The school districts, as to area and outline, remain essentially 
the same as then, but the center of population and business has 
changed several times, and the schools in certain districts have 
undergone corresponding changes. In 1822, at the last general 
districting, there were only three families in district number 
four, and these all lived at the head of Bryant's Pond. This is 
now the Bryant's Pond district, the largest and the only graded 
school in town. A school house was not built in this district 
until 1857, thirty-five years after the district was formed. 

Prom the small beginnings toward the establishment of schools 
in Woodstock, which we have described, there was steady 
progress, and for the last forty years the cause of education in 
this town has received every needed attention. The schools 
have taken high rank, and no town in the County, of the same 
population, has furnished more or better teachers. Many of 
these teachers received all their education and training in the 
common schools of their town and at teachers' institutes. Some 
of these teachers were the sons and daugliters of those who 
voted to raise no money for the education of the one hundred 
children in the plantation, and others were their grandchildren. 
Among those who were either born in Woodstock or received 
their common school education here, and who became successful 
teachers, were Eichard T. Purvey, Sidney Perham, Alden Chase, 
Henry H. Packard, Orsamus Nute, Geo. Cushman, George F. 
Leonard, Herrick C. Davis, Charles 0. Whitman, Harrison S. 
Whitman, Wm. M. Brooks," Oren Stephens, Nehemiah Davis, 



108 HISTOEY OF WOODSTOCK. 

A. Fitzroy Chase, Joel Perham, Jr., Geo. W. Whitman, ¥. 
Wyman, Chas. P. Knight, Jeff. C. Gallison, Herbert C. 5acon, 
' Geo. E. Whitman, Augustus Knight, Cyrus Davis, Marcius 
Knight, Martha E. Perham, Etta D. Cole, Ella F. Cole, Cynthia 
A. Perham, Amanda M. Perham, Viana Perham, Lorenda 
Packard, Clara J. Knight, INIaria G. Farnum, Linda Day, 
Nancy F. Whitman, Lavina Whitman, Euth Kicker, Corrina 
Davis, Florence Davis, Lavina Davis and Clata Bryant. There 
are probably others whose names are not now recalled. Some 
of these teachers not only taught successfully in Woodstock, 
but achieved a high reputation in other towns. In some 
of the districts, the number that attend is greatly reduced from* 
what it formerly was. In district number 3, the seats were 
generally crowded summer and winter, but now a majority of 
them are empty. Tliis is due to the fact that, while the number 
of families have not much diminished, there are fewer children. 
The same is true of other districts ill town, notably in the first, 
second and center districts. The districts generally have con- 
venient school houses and all needed apparatus. The Bryant's 
Pond school house, built in 1857, is two stories high and has a 
primary department. A high school has been successfully 
taught here, spring and fall, for several years. 



MASONIC. 

The dispensation of Jefferson Lodge, No. 100, is dated Feb- 
ruary 8, 1860, signed by Hiram Chase, G. M. The petitioners, 
James B. Currier, John B. Merrill, Joshua Young, Nathaniel F. 
Jacobs, James Euss, George H. Webber, William B. Lapham 
and Caleb Bessee, Jr. Under that dispensation the G. M. ap- 
pomted James B. Currier, W. M. ; John B. Merrill, S. W. ; 
James Euss, J. W. The first meeting under it was held Feb- 
ruary 14, 1860, and the W. M., J. B. Currier, appointed W. B. 
Lapham, T. ; Caleb Bessee, Jr., S. ; N. F. Jacobs, S. D. ; G. H. 




RUFUS K. DUNHAM, 



HISTOKY OF WOODSTOCK. 109 

Webber, J. D., and Joshua Young, Tyler; and at that meeting 
the petitions of Eufus K. Dunham, Joel Perham, Jr., and Thomas 
R. Carman were received, and they were initiated March 13, 
1860, in the order named above. They were the first three 
masons made under the dispensation. Rev. David Ricker was 
the next, being initiated March 27, 1860, Rufus K. Dunham 
was raised at that meeting and acted as Secretary till the Lodge 
was chartered. The charter of the Lodge is dated May 8, 
1860, and the following names appear in the charter : James 

B. Currier, John B. Merrill, Joshua Yioung, Nathaniel F. Jacobs, 
James Russ, (jreorge H. Webber, William B. Lapham and Caleb 
Bessee, Jr. 

The first meeting under the charter was held May 17, 1860, 
when the following officers were elected : J. B. Currier, W. M. ; 
J. B. Merrill, S. W. ; James Russ, J.W. ; W. B. Lapham, T. ; R. K. 
Dunham, S. ; N. F. Jacobs, S. D. ; G. H. Webber, J. D. The 
W. M. appointed Joel Perham, Jr., S. S. ; T. R. Carman, J. S. ; 
Rev. David Ricker, C. ; Caleb Bessee, Jr., Tyler. These were 
the first officers of the Lodge under the charter. The officers 
were installed and the Lodge constituted the same day by R.W. 
Timothy J. Murray, presiding officer. 

Jan. 8, 1861, elected J. B. Currier, M; R. K. Dunham, Sec. 
Jan. 13, 1863, J. B. Merrill, M. ; G. W. Bryant, Sec. Jan. 
10, 1864, J. B. Merrill, M. ; R. K. Dunham, Sec. Jan. 10, 
1865, K F. Jacobs, M. ; R. K. Dunham, Sec. Jan. 9, 1866, 
W. B. Lapham, M. ; R. K. Dunham, Sec. Jan. 8, 1867, W. B. 
Lapham, M. ; R. K. Dunham, Sec. Jan. 14, 1868, David 
Ricker, M. ; R. K. Dunham, Sec. Jan. 1.2, 1869, G.W. Bryant, 
M. ; R. K. Dunham, Sec. Jan. 11, 1870, Ezra Jewell, M. ; 
Charles R. Houghton, Sec. Jan. 10, 1871, Alden Chase, M. ; 

C. R. Houghton, Sec. Jan. 9, 1872, Alden Chase, M. ; C. R. 
Houghton, Sec. Jan. 14, 1873, Alden Chase, M.; C. R. Hough- 
ton, Sec. Jan. 13, 1874, Alden Chase, M. ; C. R. Houghton, 
Sec. Jan. 19, 1875, Rufus K. Dunham, M. ; A. C. Bolster, 
Sec. Jan. 11, 1876, R. K. Dunham, M.; A. C. Bolster, Sec. 



110 HISTOEY OF WOODSTOCK. 

Jan. 23, 1877, Horace C. Berry, M. ; A. C. Bolster, Sec. Jan. 
15, 1878, James L. Bowker, M. ; Alden Chase, Sec. Jan. 7, 
1879, J. L. Bowker, M. ; Alden Chase, Sec. Jan. 27, 1880, 
Albion P. Bowker, M. ; Alden Chase, Sec. Jan. 11, 1881, 
Albion P. Bowker, M. ; Alden Chase, Sec. Jan. 3, 1882, Wil- 
liam Day, M. ; Alden Chase, Sec. 

The Lodge held a few of its first meetings in a hall called 
Moody's Hall. It then removed to a hall known as the Perham 
Hall, where it remained until they purchased a hall of 0. C. 
& H. F. Houghton, which was dedicated October 17, 1872, the 
M. W. G. M., David Cargill, superintending the ceremonies. 
The Lodge, since its organization, to January 1, 1882, has raised 
119 masons. It numbers, January 1, 1882, 90 members ; 145 
members have belonged to the Lodge. It now owns its hall 
and one-third of the lot on which it stands ; has no debts and 
$300 in its treasury. During the last nine years, it has paid 
from. its funds over $450 for charity. 



MILITARY. 

Even in the early days, the military spirit was strong among 
the citizens of Woodstock, and grew stronger until the time 
when, to the intense disgust of many, military drill was no 
longer required. A person who has been familiar with Wood- 
stock for sixty years, and who, from being a non-resident, had 
no reason to be partial, says, " that in proportion to its popula- 
tion, no town in the County has developed as many efficient 
military men as Woodstock, and this town was indeed fortunate 
in the numl^er and merit of its field officers," of whom, more 
hereafter. When the war of 1812 became imminent, the war- 
cry of " Free Trade and Sailors' Eights," resounded through these 
regions, and a company of Infantry was organized April 11, 
1812. Jotham Perham was Captain, Lemuel Perham, Jr., 
Lieutenant, and Edward Lothrop, Ensign. Mention is made 



HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. Ill 

in the plantation records of an allowance being made to Lemuel 
Perham for expenses incurred at a muster soon after the planta- 
tion was organized, though where and precisely at what time is 
not stated, nor what troops, besides those under Capt. Perham, 
were mustered. It is quite probable, however, that the muster 
here referred to was at Paris or Norway, where musters of the 
First Kegiment, First Brigade and Sixth Division were at that 
period usually held. 

In September, 1814, Capt. Perham's company was ordered to 
the defense of Portland from an apprehended attack by the 
British, with whom the United States was then at war. They 
served in Lieutenant William Eyersou's Eegiment, and, besides 
the time occupied in traveling to and from Portland, were in 
the service eleven days, from September 13th to the 24th. The 
company was made up as follows : 

Jotham Perham, Captain. 
Lemuel Perham, Jr., Lieutenant. 

SERGEANTS. 

Alexander Day, Seth Curtis, 

Samuel Bryant, Josiah Dudley. 

MUSICIAN. 

Gideon Swan. 

PRIVATES. 

Christopher Bryant, Samuel Dunham, 

Luther Briggs, Consider Fuller, 

Solomon Bryant, Enoch Hammond, 

Morton Curtis, Wilham Swan, 

Noah Curtis, Jr., Amos Thurlow, 

Jonathan T. Clifibrd, Otis Townsend, 

William Cotton, David Ptand, 

Aaron Davis, Jacob Whitman. 
Moses Dudley, 

It will be noticed that this company included more than half 
the heads of families in the plantation and many of the lead- 



112 HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 

ing citizens. Besides this company, several citizens of this 
plantation served in other companies. In Captain Uriah Rip- 
ley's Paris Company were Charles Curtis, Joseph Cole, Daniel 
Dacy and Joshua Young, though the last named may not yet 
have moved into the plantation ; the others certainly had. 
Then in Capt. Stephen Blake's Paris Company, which served 
from September 25th to November 9th, same year, were Chris- 
topher Bryant, Solomon Bryant, Jr., John R. Briggs and Thomas 
Farrar, and several of Capt. Perham's men also re-enlisted and 
served in this company ; they were Josiah Dudley, Amos Thur- 
low and Samuel Bryant. In Capt. Bemis's Company, from the 
sam6 town, was Thayer Townsend, of number three. This 
makes thirty-one of the inhabitants of this plantation that 
served in Portland during the autumn of 1814, a patriotic 
record, truly. Among those who served and soon after became 
citizens of Woodstock, or the Gore, were Sylvauus Bartlett, 
Cyprian Bowker, Asa Barrows, Samuel Durell, Tilden Bartlett, 
Harvey Fuller and George W. Cummings. These men were 
not brought in contact with the enemy, but they are entitled 
to as much honor as though they had seen real service. 
The city was threatened, and they went expecting to drive 
away the enemy by force, but it seems their presence was 
sufficient to protect Portland, and they came home without 
so much as hearing a single hostile gun. A few persons who 
subsequently settled in this town, experienced more than this, 
having served in the army in northern New York, and partic- 
ipated in the engagements at "Shadague and Plattsburg. Caleb 
B. Barrows, Geo. W. Cummings and Moses Cummings were of 
that number. John Packard, one of the two brothers who 
began on the Day farm, as mentioned elsewhere, was killed in 
the former engagement, which fact accounts for liis not settling 
upon his land. 

The trainings in Woodstock, from 1812 to 1828, were 
held on the farm begun on by Merrill Chase, on the hill east 
of David Flicker's ; after that they were held on the Joseph 



HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 113 

Whitman farm. Of the Woodstock infantry company, Jotham 
Perham was the first Captain, Lemuel Perham, Jr., was Lieu- 
tenant, and Edward Lothrop, Ensign. He was probably succeeded 
by Alexander Day, who resigned m 1822, and was followed by 
Jonathan Cole. The latter resigned or was discharged February 
10, 1824 ; Josiah Dudley was Lieutenant under him and Eichard 
T. Lurvey, Ensign; Dudley resigned April 26, 1824 Richard 
T. Lurvey was the next Captain. He was subsequently pro- 
moted to Major, and Lieut-Colonel and Colonel of the regiment 
to which his company belonged. His subordinates were Luther 
Perkins, Lieutenant, and Jesse H. Stephens, Ensign. Luthei; 
Perkins was the next Captain, with Jesse H. Stephens, Lieu- 
tenant, and John R Briggs, Ensign. At the expiration of 
Perkins' term Stephens resigned his Lieutenancy and John R 
Briggs was promoted to Captain. From this time to the repeal 
or modification of the militia law, so that meetings for drill were 
no longer required, the following were the line officers : 

In 1830, John R. Briggs was Captain, George W. Cushman, 
Lieutenant, and Learned Whitman, Ensign. 

In 1832, George W. Cushman, Captain, Learned Whitman, 
Lieutenant, and Perrin Dudley, Ensign. 

In 1835, Perrin Dudley, Captain, Henry H. Packard, Lieu- 
tenant, and Enoch French, Ensign. 

In 1837, Henry H. Packard, Captain, Thomas C. Cushman, 
Lieutenant, Joseph Davis, Ensign. 

In 1841, Joseph Davis, Captain, Harrison Whitman, Lieu- 
tenant, and Joseph Whitman, Jr., Ensign. 

In 1844, Harrison Whitman, Captain, Joseph Whitman, Jr., 
Lieutenant, and Albion P. Cole, Ensign. 

In 184"), Merrill J. Rowe was Captain, and no other officers of 
the company are on record in the Military Department at the 
State House. This was about the time that, by Legislative 
enactment, the militia of Maine was exempted from military 
drill. 

The Captains, in the order of their service, were Jotham Per- 
8 



114 HISTOEY OF WOODSTOCK. 

ham, Alexander Day, Jonathan Cole, Eichard T. Lurvey, Luther 
Perkins, John E. Briggs, George W, Cushman, Perrin Dudley, 
Henry H. Packard, Joseph Davis, Harrison Whitman and Mer- 
rill J. Eowe. Most of these had served in subordinate positions. 
Those who served as Lieutenant or Ensign and never as Captain, 
were Lemuel Perham, Jr., Edward Lothrop, Josiah Dudley, 
Jesse H. Stephens, Learned Whitman, Thomas C. Cushman, 
Joseph Whitman, Jr., and Albion P. Cole. 

John E. Briggs was Lieut.-Colonel of the First Eegiment, 
Eirst Brigade and Sixth Division in 1832, and Colonel in 1833. 

> Perrin Dudley was Major of the same regiment in 1837, 
Lieut-Colonel in 1839, and Colonel in 1840. 

Geo. W. Cushman was Lieut.-Colonel of the same regiment 
in 1835, Colonel in 1836, and Brigadier General of the First 
Brigade, Sixth Division, in 1837. 

Eichard T. Lurvey was discharged as Lieut.-Colonel, March 
8, 1828, to accept the colonelcy of the same regiment. 

Christopher Bryant, Jr., the first child born in Woodstock, 
but a resident of Greenwood, was Major in 1840, and Cyprian 
Cole, of Greenwood, brother of Capt. Jonathan, of this town, 
was Colonel in 1824. It will thus be seen that the little town 
of Woodstock furnished a field officer for the regiment from 
1830 to 1840, and among them four Colonels. 

In 1838, Company C of Cavalry, attached to the First Brigade, 
Sixth Division, was organized, made up of citizens of Paris, 
Greenwood and Woodstock. The officers in 1838 were : Horatio 
G. Euss, Captain, Joshua S. Whitman and Jared Young, Lieu- 
tenants, and John Day, Cornet. In 1842, the officers were: 
Joshua S. Whitman, Captain, John Day, Lieutenant, and Sid- 
ney Perham, Ensign. This company sometimes met for drill 
on the level land between West Paris and Trap Corner. A 
company of Cavalry, with its grotesque uniform, was a novelty 
in this region, and the occasion of its drills always drew a large 
crowd. 



HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 115 



THE WAK OF THE KEBELLION. 



At the election of President in 1860, Woodstock gave a large 
majority to the Kepublican ticket. The anti-slavery sentiment 
in this town had been developing for some years. It found 
expression in the majority the town gave Frdmont in 1856, 
and in the still larger majority it gave Lincoln in 1860. When 
the war broke out in 1861, the patriotic feeling in Woodstock 
speedily hushed what little opposition there was, and during 
the four years of the contest there was really but one feeling 
manifested — that of loyalty to the National Government. The 
town promptly responded to every call that was made for men ; 
not grudgingly, but with right hearty good will. For the first 
call of seventy-five thousand men for three months, Maine only 
furnished one regiment, and while a large number in Woodstock 
were ready to go, they could not be received, because preference 
was given to companies already organized, and Woodstock had 
none. Six of our citizens, however, mostly young men, went 
and joined the Norway company. Their names were : Charles 
W. Farnum, Thorndike H. Sawyer, Lewis H. Stephens, Wil- 
liam F. Jewell and Nathan C. Knapp. The following are the 
names of Woodstock men that served in other Maine organiza- 
tions : 

■ SECOND REGIMENT. 

Anson G. Bowker. 

FIFTH REGIMENT. 

Phillip Abbott, Horace C. Berry, Corp., Caleb Bessee, Jr., Geo. 
W. Kicker, Ezra Ridlon, Fessenden Swan, Cyrus Thurlow, 
Enoch Whittemore, Jr., and Alanson M. Whitman. 

EIGHTH REGIMENT, 

Andrew Jackson, William W. Leavitt. 

NINTH REGIMENT. 

Sumner C. Farnum, Charles G. Perkins, Corporal. 



116 HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 

TENTH REGIMENT. 

Horace C. Berry, Corp., Luther Briggs, Henry F. Cole, Joseph 
W. Cummings, Aaron D. Cotton, Amos S. Bryant, Alpheus 
Fuller, Wm. H. Fuller, Levi D. Jewell, Isaac F. Lapham, 
Fessenden Swan, Edward K. Young, James L. Perham. 

TWELFTH REGIMENT. 

John H. Abbott, Charles D. Ptowe, James Euss and James 
P. Euss. 

THIRTEENTH REGIMENT. 

Samuel Bobbins, Leander S. Swan. 

SIXTEENTH REGIMENT. 

Gilbert M. L. Whitman. 

SEVENTEENTH REGIMENT. 

Hiram Andrews, Luther B. Farnum, Wm. F. Harding, Charles 
P. Jackson, Alvan H. Marr, Dustin B. Eicker, Geo. W. Whit- 
man, Barnet Thorn. 

TWENTIETH REGIMENT. 

Geo. H. York, Caleb Bessee, Jr. 

TWENTT-THIRD REGIMENT. 

John L. Noyes, Galen G. Bowker, Joseph H. Davis, Wm. F. 
Jewell, Gilman A. Whitman, Consider F. Farrar, Albert Green, 
Henry Jordan, Jr., Eobert B. Taylor, Thomas J. Whitman, and 
Wm. B. Lapham, private. Commissary Sergt., 2d Lieut, and 1st 
Lieut., Co. F. 

TWENTY-NINTH REGIMENT. 

Horace C. Berry, Sergt. and Henry F. Cole. 

THIRTIETH REGIMENT. 

Eobert H. Doughty. 

THIRTV-FIRST REGIMENT. 

Oscar F. Whitman, Charles H. Packard. 

THIRTY-SECOND REGIMENT. 

Charles H. Chase, Wm. F. Jewell, Sergt., Nathaniel H. Ful- 
ler, Chas. W. Farnum, Oscar F. Whitman, John E. Lapham. 



HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 117 

FIFTH BATTERY. 

Cyrus A. Andrews, Samuel W. Benson, Wm. H. Proctor. 

SEVENTH BATTERY. 

Wm. B. Laphara, First Lieut., Alfred H. Briggs, John M. 
Bryant, Lorenzo Billings, Charles M. Bixby, Alpheus Fuller, 
Levi D. Jewell, James B. Mason, James H. Pratt, Albert Bil- 
lings, Ezra Ridlon, Jr., Francis F. Stevens, Luther Briggs and 
Isaac F. Lapham. 

FIRST MAINE SHARP SHOOTERS. 

Charles B. Bessee. 

Besides the above, several men enlisted from Hamlin's Gore, 
which has since been annexed to Woodstock. Wm. H. Pearson 
served in the 10th and 29th Maine; Oliver Millett, in the 31st; 
John A. Buck, in the 10th ; Eben A. Kimball, 10th ; Stephen 
L. Ethridge, 27th ; Charles H. Buck and George Buck in the 
15th. 

There were also several Woodstock men wlio were tempora- 
rily away and served in other regiments. James M. Lapham 
served three years in the 36th Massachusetts ; George Lucius 
Berry, son of Leonard, of this town, was in a Massachusetts 
regiment, and was shot dead in action. Napotem B. Whitman 
served in a Wisconsin regiment, and died of wounds or disease. 

Great effort has been made to have this list complete, but, 
after all this care, it will not be strange if it contains errors. 
Some Woodstock men served on the quotas of other towns, and 
on the books of the Adjutant General are credited to those towns, 
thereby rendering it impossible for me, not personally acquainted 
with them, to determine their place of residence. Woodstock 
also had credit on the books of the Adjutant General for several 
soldiers never furnished by the town ; they probably came from 
Woodstock, New Brunswick. These have been omitted from 
the lists so far as known. It is sincerely hoped that no Wood- 
stock soldier has been omitted from this list ; if there has been, 
it is because he could not be traced. This large number, very 



118 HISTOEY OF WOODSTOCK. 

large in proportion to the adult population of the town, will 
stand here as an enduring monument of the patriotism and de- 
votion of the little town of Woodstock during the terrible struggle 
of 1861-5, wjben our national unity was threatened by rebels 
in arms. 

POST OFFICES AND POSTMASTERS. 

WOODSTOCK. 

The first Post Office in Woodstock was at Stephens' Mills, 
and' John E. Briggs was the first Postmaster. This was 
June 18, A. D. 1824. The mail was then brought from 
Paris once a week, and on horseback. The carrier had a tin 
horn, which he sounded before reaching a stopping place, to 
warn the Postmaster to be in readiness to change the mail. 
Correspondence was then light, postage high and newspapers 
few. Mr. Briggs kept the office until 1831, when he was suc- 
ceeded by Eleazer C. Shaw, who kept it seven years. When the 
new County road from Paris to Eumford was completed through 
the town, the office was moved to the lower village. There have 
been several Postmasters here since the office was moved. 
Among them have been D. P. Hannaford, Thos. Sampson, Thos. * 
T. Lurvey, Isaac W. Andrews and Francis F. Stevens. At the 
present time it is kept by Oliver 0. Fuller. After the village 
ran down by the building of the railway through the town, the 
office was moved and kept a long time at Andrews' Mill. 

NORTH WOODSTOCK. 

An office was established at North Woodstock (Pinhook) in 
1847, and John M. Gallison appointed Postmaster. The peti- 
tion was seot in February, and in April following the mails 
were first distributed from the North Woodstock office. Mr. 
Gallison held the office ten years, when he was succeeded by H. 
Hall Torrey. After him, in the order named, were James Kuss, 



HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 119 

Matthias McKenney, Jarvis C. Billings, George Fuller, Eliza- 
beth Fuller, and in 1872, Mr. Gallison again, who still has it. 
Until the opening of the Grand Trunk Eailway, in 1855, the 
mails were left by the stage that ran between Portland and 
Andover ; they first had the mail once, and subsequently twice 
a week. Now they have a daily mail, which comes by rail to 
Bryant's Pond, thence by the Andover stage. A mail is taken 
from here every morning in season to reach Portland and Boston 
the same day. 

Bryant's pond. 

A Post Office became necessary at Bryant's Pond on the 
opening of the Grand Trunk Eailway in 1851, and was estab- 
lished that year. The first Postmaster was Ezra Jewell, who 
kept the office at the old yellow store where he traded, on the 
corner. Rufus K. Dunham afterwards had the office, and 
moved it to the railway station. Subsequently, Benj. F. Craw- 
ford was appointed, and kept the office in his shoemaker's shop, 
a little distance on the Rumford road. With the change of 
administration in 1857, James H. Farnum was appointed, and 
moved the office to his son-in-law's, C. P. Knight's, store. Here 
it was kept until Mr. Farnum's death, when Joseph Pray was 
appointed and moved the office to his (the Crockett) store. In 
the spring of 1861, Dr. William B. Lapham was appointed, and 
fitted up the office, where it has since been kept. This was the 
first time that a separate room was fitted up for it with lock 
and other boxes. In 1865, Dr. Lapham sold out the property to 
Nathaniel F. Jacobs, and resigned the office of Postmaster in 
his favor, and Mr. Jacobs was at once appointed. He held the 
position up to the time of his death, when his wife, Mrs. Eliza 
A. Jacobs, was appointed, and has since continued to hold it. 
This is much the largest and most important office in town, 
and is a distributing office for the offices at North Woodstock, 
Milton Plantation and beyond towards Andover. 

A summary of the Postmasters in town is as follows : 



120 HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK, 

Woodstock. John E. Briggs, June 18, '24 ; Eleazer C. Shaw, 
Feb. 22, '31 ; Eichard T. Lurvey, Nov. 19, '41 ; John Bicknell, 
Mar. 16, '42; David P. Hannaford, Apr. 20, '44; Thomas T. 
Lurvey, Jan'y 20, '46 ; Thomas Sampson, May 27, '47. Dis- 
continued Oct. 18, 1855. Ee-established Dec. 14, 1855. Isaac 
W. Andrews, Dec. 14, '55 ; John E. Briggs, Apr. 9, '60 ; John 
C. Andrews, May 4, '60; Isaac W. Andrews, June 20, '64. 
Discontinued Oct. 20, 1873. 

North Woodstock. John M. Gallison, Apr. 5, 1847 ; Heze- 
kiah H. Torrey, Dec. 23, '56 ; James Euss, Jan. 25, '60 ; Mathias 
V. McKenney, Dec. 21, '60 ; Jarvis C. Billings, Jan. 3, '65 ; 
George W. Fuller, Apr. 28, '68 ; Eliza L. Fuller, June 22, '69 ; 
John M. Gallison, July 26, '72. 

South Woodstock, Francis F. Stevens, Dec. 28, 1874 ; Oli- 
ver L. Fuller, April 12, '76. 

Bryant's Pond. Ezra Jewell, Jan. 3, 1852 ; Eufus K. Dun- 
ham, Mar. 29, '53 ; Benjamin F. Crawford, Sept. 27, '55 ; James 
H. Farnum, Oct. 23, '56 ; Joseph Pray, Oct. 8, '59 ; William B, 
Lapham, Aug. 3, '61 ; Nathaniel F. Jacobs, May 6, '65 ; Eliza 
A. Jacobs, Jan, 17, '76, 



hotels. 

Some of the early settlers, after they had advanced far enough 
to build farm houses — those that lived on the County road — were 
in the habit of putting up strangers, though their accommoda- 
tions were necessarily limited. John E. Briggs kept a public 
house in connection with his store, and perhaps may be regarded 
as the first hotel keeper in town. Luther Whitman also put up 
up travele^;s, and so did Joel Perham and Eowse Bisbee, After 
the new County road was built and the little village of South 
Woodstock sprung up, a hotel was kept there by John Bicknell, 
D. P. Hannaford, and afterwards by the Libbys, father and sons, 
and others. Edmund Bowker also kept a public house near the 



HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 121 

center of the town for quite a number of years. John E. Briggs 
was tlie first hotel keeper at North Woodstock, though his house 
was somewhat contracted for purposes of this kind. The first 
building put up in this place for a hotel was by Chauncey C. 
Whitman. He had a dance hall in connection therewith, and 
for a few years his house was quite well patronized. After Mr. 
Whitman came J. ]\I. Gallison & Son, Anthony Bennett, and 
lastly Eichard Smith. In 1865, Mr. Gallison purchased the old 
tavern stand, and has since occupied it as a dwelling. 

The first hotel at Bryant's Pond was kept by Joseph Frye. 
He purchased the A. K. Whitman farm, upon which the village 
is built, and removing a portion of the Houghton House from 
the foot of the pond, converted it into a hotel. This hotel, with 
the exception of a few additions and alterations, is the present 
tavern at Bryant's Pond. Nathaniel Mayberry afterwards occu- 
pied the house, and afterwards, for short periods, Charles P. 
Knight and John Q'. Adams. In the latter part of 1856, the 
hotel property was purchased by James Silver, and his son-in- 
law, Howe, from Eumford. They ran the house for a year and 
a half, and sold out to Tuttle and Hobbs, of Norway. These 
parties bought, in connection therewith, the stage line to Andover 
and Dixfield. They also kept a livery stable and dealt quite 
largely in horses. They kept a good hotel, the best ever kept 
in town, and were enterprising men. In 1865, they sold out 
and went to Providence, E. I. The new man was Nathaniel B. 
Crockett, of Andover. He had previously been in trade here. 
Crockett remained until 1871, when he sold out to Allen and 
Perham, who were there two years. Joseph H. Carpenter had 
it in 1874, and then Otis Kaler bought the property, enlarged 
the house, and made many improvements. He changed the 
name from the Bryant's Pond to the Glen Mountain House. 
He ran the house four years. F. T. Stevens, the proprietor of 
Mt. Zircon Springs, had it in 1878, Orlando C. Houghton in 1879, 
and E. S. Eussell in 1880. It is now kept by Hiram Perkins. 



122 HISTOEY OF WOODSTOCK. 

VILLAGES. 

Stephens' Mills, or Woodstock Corner, was for several years 
the business center of Woodstock. Here the first general store 
was established and tlie first Post Office. John E. Briggs began 
to trade here about the year 1824, and traded until 1830, when 
he was succeeded by Eleazer Shaw, who kept the store and 
Post Office until 1837. Welcome Kinsley then took the store 
and traded for several years. He was the last trader at this 
place. The Stephens mill was taken down, or tumbled down, 
about 1835, and afterwards business at this place declined. 
Ziba Andrews had built a mill at South Woodstock, and, after 
the new County road was built from Paris to Eumford, the 
center of business gradually changed to near Andrews' mill. 
A little village sprang up, a hotel was opened, and after a time 
the Post Office was moved here. Trade was also carried on 
here by one or more stores. A strong effort was made to have 
a County road laid out by way of West Paris, and following 
the line afterwards occupied by the railroad to the island farm, 
so called, in Greenwood, and then, after crossing the outlet of 
the North Alder River Pond, to divide, a branch leading to 
Bethel and another to Eumford. Believing that such a road 
would be laid out and built, Samuel H. Houghton put up a 
large building for a hotel at the foot of Bryant's Pond, thinking 
this would become a business center or an important thorough- 
fare. But the road was defeated, and with its defeat fled the 
hopes of Mr. Hougl^ton, and he soon left town. A part of his 
buildings were moved to Bryant's Pond and were incorporated 
into the hotel there. Something of a village also sprang up at 
North Woodstock, called Pinhook. A store was opened here, 
and kept by Edmund Chase, Caleb Bessee, Jr., Chauncey C. Whit- 
man and others, and a hotel was kept by John E. Briggs. A 
Post Office was subsequently established here, and this little 
hamlet, with the one at South Woodstock, which was called by 
various slang names, such as " Slab City," " Tmker Village," 



HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 



123 



." Punky Pog," &c., continued to be the chief business places in 
town, until the building of the Atlantic and St. Lawrence Eail- 
road through the town in 1851. 

This was the beginning of Bryant's Pond Village, which 
sprung up rapidly around the railway station and has since con- 
tinued to be the center of trade and of business for Woodstock. 




BRYANT S POND FROM DUDLEY HILL. 



It is not only the center of a considerable local trade, but the 
towns lying to the north and north-east, which come here to 
take the cars, furnish considerable traffic to the traders at Bry- 
ant's Pond. There are two church edifices here, several stores 
and a good hotel. The erection of a large spool factory, to be 
run by steam, added materially to the business of the place, as 
there is here no water power. There has been but very little 
business done either at North or South Woodstock for the last 
twenty years. The south part of the town does most of its 
business at West Paris, and a portion of Greenwood comes natu- 
rally to Bryant's Pond. 



124 HISTOEY OF WOODSTOCK. 



TRADERS. 



It is not an easy task to recall the different persons who have 
been in trade in this town at different periods. In the early 
times, there were several of the settlers that kept groceries, in- 
cluding New England rum, for sale in their dwelling houses. 
Eowse Bisbee kept such goods both before and after he moved 
to Pinhook ; Joel Perham, Luther Whitman and John E. Briggs 
were among those who trafficked in this way. The great bulk 
of the goods used in town, however, were purchased in Paris. 
The first regular store of goods 'opened here was by John E. 
Briggs, and probably about the year 1824. This was at Stephens' 
Mills. He was succeeded by Eleazer C. Shaw, from Paris, and 
he, in 1837, by Welcome Kinsley. William Cotton also, per- 
haps, traded at the same place and these were the last. 

At North Woodstock, the first person to open a general store 
was Edmund Chase ; after him came in the order named, John 
E. Briggs, Euss & Adams, Chauncey C. Whitman, Whitman 
and Bessee, Henry Howe, William Small, Ezra Jewell, McKen- 
ney Brothers, C. M. Wormwell & Co., Perham & Burk, Charles 
Dunham, Frank Godwin, Godwin & Perham, and Cole & Look. 
No heavy stocks of goods have ever been kept there, and goods 
were largely exchanged with the farmers for country produce. 

The first trader at Bryant's Pond was Ezra Jewell. He was 
a veteran in trade, having been in business in Bangor, Portland 
and Norway. His store was the one opposite the hotel, on the 
Eumford road. Henry Howe came here from North Woodstock 
and built a store, which was burned in 1860, and stood on the 
same spot where Joel Perham re-built in 1860. His brother 
William was in company with him. They sold out to Joel 
Perham, Jr., who traded a few years and sold out to Davis & 
Stearns. He bought it back after a year, and sold out again to 
W. B. Lapham, who ran it a year, and then it went back again . 
into Perham's hands. Jonathan Jewell built the store at the 
east end of the village, and did a large business in flour and 



HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 125 

corn. A. K. Knapp & Son were there after him, and since that 
time 0. C. & H. Houghton, W. H. Cole, C. P. Berry and others 
have occupied it. The store north of the hotel was built by 
Hezekiah Eolfe, and was occupied by him, then by C. P. Knight, 
Lyman Bolster and F. M. Bartlett. A. B. & N. B. Crockett, 
from Andover, built a large store on the land belonging to the 
Railway Company south of the station, where they traded a 
few years. Afterwards it was occupied by Dunham & Estes, 
Pray & Merrill, and lastly by F. M. Bartlett & Co. It was 
burned while occupied by them. The Ezra Jewell store has 
been occupied by Jewell & Sawyer, D. M. Jacobs, D. P. Bowker, 
Thomas Pu Day and Ansel Dudley. Several of the above kept . 
only confectionery, nuts, and tobacco in its different forms. 
Sylvania Perham has kept a millinery and fancy g(?ods store 
here for nearly thirty years. She has generally had a large 
trade. Joseph Churchill, from Norway, kept a stock of 
Gent's Furnishing Goods here for some years, in the building 
put up by him. He occupied the upper part as a dwelling. 
E. K. Knight, with his father, kept tlie first hardware store 
here. They also manufactured tin ware. They were succeeded 
by S. A. Brock, who carried on the business very successfully 
for a few years and then went to Bethel. Mr. Durgin carried 
on the business in the Knight store awhile, and was succeeded 
by Charles E. Houghton. Thomas Sampson built and kept a 
small store at South Woodstock. Others may have traded 
there previously. Granville Fuller kept a store near the Metho- 
dist meeting house, in the south part, which he sold to Wm. H. 
Cole, receiving in payment the farm known as the Gilbert place. 

PHYSICIANS. 

The first regular physician in this town was Dr. Nathan A. 
Bradbury, who came here in 1827. He was the son of Joseph 
Bradbury and of Tabitha Cotton, his wife, and was born in 
Poland, June 20, 1801. His father, with his family, moved to 



126 HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 

Norway, where Nathan A. was married to Eliza Millett, Oct. 
15, 1827. He lived in a house near Stephens' Mills, which 
was subsequently bought by Kilbon Perham, moved to his 
present farm and occupied by him until a few years ago, when 
it was torn down to give place to a better one. Dr. Bradbury 
was here only a few years when he moved to Sweden, in the 
west part of the County. He was Superintending School Com- 
mittee here in 1828 and 1829. One of his daughters became a 
regular physician, and married Dr. Babb, of Eastport. 

The next one was Dr. Oilman Eowe. He was a native of 
New Hampsliire, but came here from Canada. He married 
Cynthia Buck, daughter of Moses, of Sumner, and after re- 
maining in this town a short time, he moved to North Paris 
and died there. He was here in 1838. His widow became the 
second wife of America Bisbee, of Norway. Dr. Eowe did an 
extensive practice while here, in this and the surrounding towns. 

Dr. Edwin Green was here in 1846. He was a native of 
Paris, and married a Kendall, of Berlin, N. H. He was a well 
educated physician, but not a successful practitioner. He after- 
wards lived on a farm in Sumner, his place being near the road 
which leads from the Dunham neighborhood to Jackson Village. 
He died a year or two ago. 

The first physician at the Pond was Dr. W. B. Lapham, who 
came from Bethel in 1856. He was here until 1871, with the 
exception of three years and a half in the army. 

While Dr. Lapham was away in the army. Dr. Henry M. 
Adams moved from Eumford to the Pond. He was a dentist, 
but went into general practice here. In 1865, he removed to 
Cedar Falls, Iowa, and from thence to Dakota. 

Dr. Orren Stephens, son of Benjamin, of this town, settled at 
the Pond in 1870, and after a year or two moved to Oxford. 

Dr. E. Bragdon, Jr., succeeded Dr. Lapham at the Pond, and 
was here about two years when he moved away. The next one 
was David Watson, who had served in the United States Navy. 
He was here a year and a half and then moved to Conway, N. H. 



HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 127 

Dr. Charles D. Bradbury, from Buckfield, moved to a farm in 
Sigotcb, and did some practice in that section. His wife was 
Malone Chase, daughter of Thomas, of Buckfield. It was upon 
his land that gold was discovered, which led to the sinking of a 
shaft and the expenditure of quite a large sum of money, in 
efforts to develop what probably never existed. 

Dr. Joseph S. Burns, son of John G., of the " Gore," a gradu- 
ate of Bowdoin College, studied medicine and was here a short 
time and then went South. 

Dr. R. P. Sawyer came to the Pond from Portland and is 
still here. This includes all the regular practitioners. 

Dr. Peter Brooks and Dr. Christopher Bryant were quite 
famous " root and herb " Doctors in the early time, and the 
latter, from his habit of digging his remedies from the grouijd, 
was called " Doctor Digeo." Samuel Bryant, Jr., claimed that 
the mantle of his uncle fell upon him, and practiced more or 
less with similar remedies up to near the time of his death. 

Many out of town physicians have been employed. In the 
early times, Drs. Croswell and Benj. Chandler, of Paris, were 
in high repute, and later, Drs. Kittredge, Brown, Twitchell and 
Russell, from the same town, were more or less employed. 
Drs. Danforth and Millett, of Norway, were well known here, 
and also Drs. Fuller, Roberts and Russell, of Rumford, Drs. 
Wiley and Grover of Bethel, and later, Dr. David W. Davis, of 
Locke's Mills, and Drs. Yates and Packard, of West Paris. 



LAWYERS. 

Woodstock has never been overburdened with lawyers. Thos. 
S. Bridgham, son of Sydenham and grandson of Dr. William, 
all of Buckfield, came here and opened an office in 1858. He 
married Martha, daughter of Hon. James H. Farnum. He re- 
mained here only two or three years. 

The next and only other one was Herrick C. Davis, son of 



128 HISTOEY OF WOODSTOCK. 

Benjamin, of this town. He was at first a carpenter, then went 
into trade and finally studied law. He was here until he was 
elected Eegister of Probate in 1872, when he moved to Paris, 



THE PUBLIC LOTS. 

The reservations for ministerial and school purposes have 
already been referred to ; these constituted the public lots. An 
Act was passed January 19, 1816, authorizing the sale of these 
lots, and providing for a Board of Trustees to have charge of 
the funds. The Board of Trustees provided for in the Act were 
Stephen Chase, Cornelius Perkins, Alexander. Day, John Bil- 
lings, Seth Curtis, Merrill Chase and Thomas Parrar. The 
sale of the public lots did not produce a large sum of money, 
probably not more than three or four hundred dollars. The 
records of the trustees not being in existence, the exact sum 
cannot be stated ; but it furnished a topic for discussion in 
many a town meeting. In 1840, the town voted to place the 
ministerial and school funds in the hands of the municipal 
officers, and to constitute them and their successors in office a 
Board of Trustees thereof. The money was loaned from time 
to time to different parties in town, endorsed notes being taken 
for security, and the result was that the parties became insolvent 
and the entire amount was lost. There was never any minister 
settled in town who was entitled to receive benefits from the 
funds, under the conditions on which the reservations were 
made. 

POLITICS, 

Like the inhabitants of all hilly or mountainous regions, the 
people of Woodstock were ever a clannish set. They were in 
the early days, and they have, in a great measure, been so ever 
since. In their politics, for more than fifty years after the town 



HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 129 

was settled, they were practically a unit. Oftentimes there was 
only one scattering vote, and that thrown by Rowse Bisbee, who 
for some years was the sole representative of the Whig party in 
town, and from 1821 to 1828, when the candidates for Governor 
were old residents of the County, the vote in that town was 
unanimous.- It continued to be practically so as stated, until 
the temperance question became an issue, and then, in spite of 
all her democratic proclivities and traditions, the town voted 
for temperance as against the democratic opposition, the first 
time the issue was presented. The first anti-slavery or free soil 
sentiment cropped out in 1844, when Edward Robinson received 
six votes for Governor. In 1850, John Hubbard, Democrat, 
received 155 votes, George F. Talbot, Freesoil, 15, and William 
G. Crosby, Whig, 8. Governor Hubbard was elected, and signed 
the Maine Liquor Law which had been passed by the Legisla- 
ture, and for this act the Democrats undertook to bounce him 
and voted for Anson G. Chandler. The question of prohibition 
was here fairly presented, and Woodstock gave Hubbard 129 
votes, Cliandler 60, and William G. Crosby 4. In 1853, the 
candidates were Anson P. Morrill, Maine Law, Albert Pillsbury, 
Democratic, William G. Crosby, Whig, and Ezekiel Holmes, 
Freesoil. Woodstock gave Morrill 107, Pillsbury 66, and 
Holmes 29. Crosby received none in this town, but he was 
a constitutional candidate and was made Governor by the Legis- 
lature. In 1854, the anti-slavery elements of the country had 
begun to unite to form the Republican party, and the Freesoil 
of Woodstock, as well as the temperance votes, were tlirown 
for Morrill, who had 145 to 84 for Albion K. Parris, the Dem- 
ocratic candidate. Morrill took his seat as Governor the follow- 
ing January. In 1855, Morrill received 140 votes, Samuel 
Wells 91 ; the Democratic ticket in the State prevailed and 
Wells was elected Governor. In 1856 occurred the first Repub- 
lican campaign ; Hannibal Hamlin was the Republican candi- 
date for Governor, and Woodstock gave him 162 votes to 81 for 
Wells. Hamlin was elected. The relative strength of the two 
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130 ■ HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 

parties remained about the same until the next Presidential 
campaign, when Israel Washburn, Jr., Eepublicau, received 172 
votes to 73 for Ephraim K. Smart. At the breaking out of the 
war of the rebellion, Woodstock was intensely loyal to the 
National Government ; in 1861, Washburn, Republican, received 
161 votes, Charles D. Jameson, the gallant commander of the 
Second Maine Regiment, and a war Democrat, received 37, and 
John W. Dana, who represented those opposed to the prosecu- 
tion of the war, had only 6 votes. Since that time, the vote of 
Woodstock has been given to the Republican ticket by a ratio 
of 3. or 4 to 1. There has probably been as little corruption in 
conducting the political campaigns, in Woodstock as in any 
town in the State. The voters here have decided convictions, 
and such men cannot be easily influenced to vote differently from 
what they think. It is not a question to be discussed here, 
whether they have voted intelligently or not, but there is not 
the least doubt about their voting as they believed, and they 
are men who can give a reason for their faith and acts. 

MILLS.. 

The first mill in town was built by Rowse Bisbee in 1808, on 
the brook near Abel Bacon's. In 1812, he sold it to James 
Nutting, who subsequently sold it to Capt. Samuel Stephens. 
It could only be operated a portion of the year for lack of 
water, and after the land was cleared along the stream, the 
volume of water grew less and less. The old mill was taken 
down in 1834 or l'835. 

Samuel H. Houghton built a saw mill quite early, at the 
foot of Bryant's Pond, which was operated by various parties 
for Uiirty or forty years, and then was allowed to go to decay. 
Merrill Chase built the first mill and was the first settler in 
Sigotch. 

Rowse Bisbee, about the year 1820, built a saw mill on the 
right hand side of the Rumford road, at Pinhook, and afterwards 



HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 131 

built a grist mill at the foot of the Billings Hill. These, long 
since, were taken down. A saw mill was built north of Pinhook, 
perhaps by Oliver Eobbins. It had several owners, among 
whom was Thomas Crocker, of Paris, before it finally rotted 
down. Ziba Andrews built a mill in the south part of the 
town, about the year 1827, and a mill of some kind has been 
operated there ever since. 

Josiah J. Knight bought the Chase mill in Sigotch about the 
year 1839, and operated it for quite a number of years, manu- 
facturing various kinds of lumber. He sold out to Bartle and 
Nathan Perry, who operated it quite successfully until they 
sold it, about . the year 1870. Joseph Davis and Scth, his 
brother, had a saw mill on the brook near their residences, which 
did considerable business. Alfred D. Bryant, in company with 
others, has since operated a mill near by the last named. None 
of these mills have been first class, on account of the limited 
supply of water. They have only been able to operate during 
the high water, in spring and fall. 

About the year 1840, a clover mill was built on the brook 
north of Pinhook, and was operated by Horatio G. Russ. Since 
1875, a spool factory has been built at Bryant's Pond, the town 
contributing generously in aid of erecting the buildings. It 
should also be mentioned, that Jonathan A. Rowe had a grist 
mill for grinding corn and rye at Pinhook, and also a shingle 
mill 



132 HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 



INCIDENTS AND ANECDOTES. 



ORIGIN OF A FAMILIAR TUNE. 

Capt. Jonathan Cole, as stated elsewhere, married Abigail 
Whitman, daughter of Jacob, of Buckfield. At the wedding 
was the well-known musical composer Maxim, whose " Turner," 
" Hallowell," " Hebron," &c., have been sung at almost every 
fireside in the land. He had also composed " Buckfield," and 
on this occasion he told the new-made bride that he would 
compose a tune representing the town where she was to make 
her future home. So he sat down and composed " Woodstock," 
which was subsequently sung with great unction by the wed- 
ding guests. This is not the "Woodstock" which appears 
in many collections, but is the one contained in the Northern 
Harmony, which is perhaps the only book in which it has 
appeared. 

NEW USE FOR A SKILLET LEg! 

When John Billings lived in a log house, on the farm after- 
wards occupied by Capt. Jonathan Cole, and had but a small 
Wearing, one morning his dog began to run and bark through 
the neighboring woods, and soon becoming stationary, Mr. 
Billings knew that he had treed his game, whatever it might be 
So taking down his old " queen's arm," he loaded it heavily 



HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 133 

with powder and buck shot, and, to make it doubly sure, he 
dropped a skillet leg into the barrel. Shouldering it^ he went 
over to Joseph Whitman's, his nearest neighbor, and engaged 
him to go with him to see what the dog had treed. The direc- 
tion was on the hill east of Mr. Whitman's house, and when 
they came near where the dog was, they looked up and saw a large 
cat-like animal leaping from tree to tree. Mr. Whitman was 
greatly excited, and axe in hand, jumped over windfalls and 
tore through the underbrush, exclaiming, " By golly, its a cata- 
mount." Mr. Billings followed close behind, and soon the 
monster stopped, turned toward them and prepared to spring. 
But when lie had drawn himself up to make his leap from the 
tree, Billings coolly took aim and fired. The animal fell dead 
at their feet, his heart pierced by the skillet leg, while the recoil 
of the gun from the overcharge knocked Mr. Billings nearly 
senseless. The skin of the catamount was shown as a trophy 
many years afterwards. 



THE FIRST DEATH. 

The first death in town was that of a child of Abram Walton. 
Mr. Walton settled on one of the lots in the east part, which 
was run out by Smith. He felled trees and burned them in the 

4 

autumn. The next spring, he built a log hut and moved 
in with his family. He junked and piled his piece in early 
summer, and set fire to it. While it was burning, his little 
daughter, three years old, wandered away from the house, and 
was burned so severely that she died. Her name was Ellen 
Walton. It is said by some that this occurred the year before 
the Bryant brothers made a settlement in the west part, upon 
the grant to Dummer Academy. Walton and Hutchinson, 
who came in with him, did not remain many years, but moved 
away, the former going west and the latter building a mill at 
North Paris. 



134 HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 

HUNTING FOR BURIED TREASURE. 

Old Doctor Bryant, one of the first two settlers of Wood- 
stock, also called, from his root-digging propensity, Dr. " Digeo/ 
was a firm believer in ghosts and witches. He also believed 
that Jewell's Island, in Casco Bay, was the place where Capt. 
Kidd deposited his money, and he often went there and searched 
for it. His idea was, that Capt. Kidd, after burying his treas- 
ure, made one of his men swear to guard it, and then killed 
him and buried him above the iron chest containing the gold. 
When anyone searching for the gold struck the chest, the sen- 
tinel ghost would always make some demonstration to frighten 
him away. If the searcher could only hold his peace and keep 
on with the work, he would succeed ; but if he was frightened 
into speaking a word, the charm would be broken and all would 
be lost. Dr. Bryant once told, in the hearing of the writer, 
how he and Hector Fuller, a colored man, once went to the 
Island fully determined to brave everything and bring away 
the coveted treasure. So, nerving themselves by the free use of 
elixir vitse and laying in a little store in case of need, they pro- 
ceeded to the Island. Observing all the required formalities, 
they commenced to dig, the moon shining brightly the while. 
After digging down several feet, one of them took the crowbar 
and striking into the earth at the bottom of the pit, it hit upon 
something that had a decided metallic ring, when instantly there 
appeared in the hole they had made, a sow with a family of 
pigs. They understood this to be a demonstration of the guard, 
and resolved to stand their ground, but the animal became 
ferocious and caught one of the diggers by the leg, which brought 
from him a profane ejaculation, when lo and behold, the animal 
and her family disappeared, the pit was filled up and they found 
themselves sitting upon the shingly beach with the tide water 
almost touching their feet. Listeners to this marvelous story 
generally believed that it was an hallucination caused by their 
potations, but nothing would so offend the Doctor as to hint at 
such a thing. 



HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. . 135 

CLOSE CALCULATION. 

Cases have sometimes occurred where persons who wished to 
have the nuptial knot tied have tried to beat down the parson's 
fees, but it is not very often that one who wants to get mar- 
ried tries the market as he would in selling his farm produce. 
But such a tiling did occur in this town. Mr. S. had bought 
and prepared the nest and snared his bird, and now wanted to 
have the legal formalities gone through with ; so he went to a 
Justice of the Peace and asked the terms. He was answered 
that the legal fee was one dollar and twenty-five cents, but 
applicants for such service generally paid two dollars or more. 
He said, "A dollar and a quarter is a darned sight too much for 
ten minutes work," and so he went to another and asked the 
same question, and was answered in essentially the same way. 
He asked if the fee could be paid in shingles, and was answered 
in the affirmative. He considered a moment, scratched his 
unkempt head, and then suddenly exclaimed : "By gosh, Tve 
got it ; my cart wheels have got to he repaired, and I can get 
Elder Richer to do it for a dollar a day, and he can marry us 
at noontime, and it won't cost me a darned cent," and away he 
went to put his brilliant project into execution ; whether he 
succeeded to his mind or not cannot be stated. 



A HARD CASE. 

The above calls to mind a circumstance in which, as in many 
other cases, " the course of true love did not run smoothly," 
though it was no fault of the lovers. A man in the east part 
of the towij paid his respects'to a girl in the same neighborhood, 
much younger than himself, in fact, one who had advanced but 
a short way into her " teens." He hauled hay to the Pond and 
bought dress goods, which he presented her ; the day was ap- 
pointed for the marriage, and the services of a magistrate be- 



136 HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 

spoken. But he visited the Justice solitary and sober that day, 
and with the blackest of " black eyes." His story was briefly 
told. He went to the home of his intended, but was met at 
the door by her father and big brother, who beat him most 
unmercifully and drove him away. He wanted either a warrant 
for the arrest of his assailants, or a writ to recover the clothes 
he had furnished the girl. He said : " Her father seemed to be 
well pleased with my attentions while I was clothing her up, 
but as soon as the gal was clothed up, the old man turned me 
away like a dog." A little advice served to calm the anger of 
the disappointed lover, who agreed that it was not best to have 
the affair made public by carrying it into court, and so it was 
allowed to subside. 



" SMALL POTATOES. 

Seed potatoes were usually very scarce in Woodstock in the 
spring, and the settlers often had to bring them from a long dis- 
tance through the woods, on their backs. One spring, Merrill 
Chase was short of* potatoes to plant and went to Asa Thurlow's, 
hoping to obtain some. But Mr. Thurlow only had a few small 
ones scattered on his cellar bottom, which he offered to give to 
Mr. Chase if he would scrape them up and take them away, 
which he gladly did. He got in all about three pecks. They 
were so small that Mr. Chase, when he planted them, carried 
them in his planting bag and used a planting hoe, the same that 
he used in planting corn on burnt land. His hogs broke out of 
their pen and dug some of the potatoes, but he saved over 
eighty bushels, the product of three pecks of seed, none of them 
larger than sparrow's eggs. Many of the potatoes raised 
weighed two pounds each. This shows the great productive- 
ness of Woodstock soil. 



history of woodstock. 137 

backwoods' life. 

Luther Whitman, Jr., moved into the east part of the town 
in 1821. The tract of land upon which he settled had been 
sold for taxes and bid off by his father, to whom it became 
forfeited. It was situated on a high hill and was covered with 
a heavy growth of hard wood. It was quite an undertaking for 
Mr. Whitman to commence life for himself upon such land, but 
he had just been married, was full of hope and courage, and so 
was his wife, and neither of thetn thought of shrinking from 
the trying duties which the situation imposed. When they set 
out, their household goods were few and simple, and Mrs. 
Whitman rode on horseback as far as Lemuel Perham's, which 
was the end of the road. From this point they traveled on 
foot two miles into the woods, guided only by a- spotted line, to 
reach their place of destination. Here Mr. Whitman had 
already erected a log cabin, in which he and his companion set 
up their household goods and gods. It was some years before 
they had any neighbor nearer than Mr. Perham. On two occa- 
sions during those years, the fire went out on the hearthstone, 
and Mrs. Whitman was obliged to go to Mr. Perham's for a 
supply. It was no easy matter to carry fire two miles through 
the woods, but she took a piece of old cotton cloth, rolled it 
tightly and setting the end on fire, it kept alive until she 
reached her home. They suffered many privations, but Mr. 
Whitman was a stalwart worker and well skilled in woodcraft, 
and in process of time, they had a large and productive farm. 
They reared a large family of intelligent and interesting children, 
but all save one died young, most of them in early man and 
womanhood. The father also sleeps with his fathers, upon this 
hill-side farm, where he had toiled for more than forty years. 
Failing health compelled the only surviving son to sell out the 
farm, and he moved to Paris ; his aged mother still lives with 
him. 



138 HISTOEY OF WOODSTOCK. 

LOG CABINS. 

Mrs. Lucretia Nutting, who died a year or two ago in Per- 
ham, Aroostook County, at a great age, came into Woodstock to 
work when she was quite young and when the settlers were 
but few. In conversation with tlfe writer a short time before 
her death, she spoke of her impressions when she first came to 
this town. It was after dark when she came up by the old, 
then the new county road, and she said she saw occasionally 
what appeared to her to be st^acks of hay placed at intervals 
along the road, but on passing them again in the day time, she 
found they were the huts of the settlers. They were built of 
logs and covered with bark, and not much larger than moderate 
sized stacks of hay, yet it was in these same huts that many of 
the staunch and representative men of the town were born. 

A POISON ELDER. 

Eowse Bisbee, who built the first mill in town, and was the 
first settler at Pinhook, was a man of few words, but of very 
strong feeling. After he moved to Pinhook, he had some dis- 
agreement with the minister, who was a blacksmith. He had 
no wordy controversy with him, in which he would stand no 
chance ; but one day he walked into the shop of the minister, 
bearing a stick of the poison or stinking elder, which he stood 
up by the side of the forge, and went away without speaking a 
word. It was his expressive way of informing the minister the 
kind of " elder " he considered him. 

NOT A MODEL TEACHER. 

John Annas, who at one time lived in the Whitman neigh- 
borhood, attended meeting one Sunday at the school house, an.d 
at noon was asked to hear a class of boys recite their lesson. 
Annas had some good qualities, but he was so addicted to the 



HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 139 

use of profane language that the bad words would often escape 
his lips without his being conscious of it. He heard the class 
through, and the boys recited so promptly that he thought they 
deserved to be praised, and he proceeded to address them, in a 
voice that was audible all over the room, as follows : " Scholars, 
you have recited a perfect lesson ; you have done well ; you are 
d — d good hoys." He was not asked to hear another class in 
that school. 

THE TOLLAWALLAITES. 

It was not always so, but there have been times when the 
people ir^ the Lunt neighborhood, so called, were a happy-go- 
lucky set. They had no regular abiding place, but circulated 
between this town, Eaymond and Auburn. If any one is 
curious to know more of them than is given here, he is referred 
to ex-sheriff Littlefield, of Auburn, who, as one of the overseers 
of the poor, has had some experience with them. They would 
not work under any circumstances. They could subsist on 
berries in the summer, but the first hard frost would send them 
pell mell to the overseers for help. This finally became so 
common, that the overseers of the poor determined to send them 
to the town farm. They had a horror of going there, and went 
home with empty hands, But the way they flanked the town 
officials was found out afterwards. One head of a family went 
to the overseers and said if he could be furnished with a barrel 
of flour and a little salt pork, he would try and get through the 
winter ; they were furnished him, as being the least expensive 
course in his case, and he immediately went home and opened 
a free boarding house. All the neighborhood turned out and 
lived on the barrel of flour until it was gone, and this thing 
was repeated until every family had been furnished with the 
same amount of supplies, which were disposed of in the same 
way. It was said that during that winter they had a dancing 
school in the neighborhood and that every person who attended 



140 ■ HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 

it, including the teacher, was living on the bounty furnished at 
the expense of the town. This story was probably the inven- 
tion of some malicious person who held the " Tollawallaites" 
in low esteem. 

BADLY SOLD. 

During exciting political campaigns, there were a few resi- 
dents of Woodstock, the same as in other towns, who would 
sell their votes provided they could find a purchaser. But it 
sometimes happened that the purchaser was himself badly sold. 
One year, when the vote in the county promised to be quite 
close, and votes were in unusual demand, one of those who 
hoped to avail himsdf of his right of suffrage to turn an honest 
penny, went to the party leaders of one side and offered to vote 
that ticket for a barrel of flour ; his offer was promptly accepted 
and the flour furnished in advance. He then went to the other 
side and offered his vote on that side for six dollars in goods ; 
this offer was also accepted and the goods handed over. When 
election day came both parties were on the lookout for him, 
but he did not put in an appearance. They then sent teams 
after him, which arrived at his house about the same time and 
found him sick in bed, with hot bricks at his feet, and suffering 
intense pain. They were obliged to go away without him, but 
as soon as they were gone, he was able to get up and go about 
his work. 

On another occasion, the vote of an east part of the town 
resident was challenged, on the ground that he had received aid 
from the town witliin three months. It seemed that a doctor's 
bill, for services in his family, had been presented to the Select- 
men, though it had not been paid. Thereupon, a leading party 
man advanced the five dollars necessary to liquidate the debt, 
directing him to go to West Paris, settle with Dr. Eussell, get 
his receipt and then come back and vote. He started off, but 
did he carry out the programme arranged for him ? Not he ; 



HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 141 

he knew a trick worth two of that ; he took the money, went 
home and staid there, and his friend and benefactor watched 
for him in vain until the polls were closed. 



CHASED BY A PANTHER. 

The truth of the following story is not avouched for by the 
writer, though there are strong grounds for believing it authentic. 
It occurred nearly a hundred years ago — and long before the 
first settler built his cabin in this town. The descendants of 
the leading character of the adventure say that the story has 
come down to them, and they believe it, and the principal 
details, as related by them, are here given. One of the first 
settlers in Paris was Lemuel Jackson, of Middleboro, Mass. 
Eumford and Paris were settled nearly at the same time, though 
when the Indian raid was made into Bethel in 1781, the settlers 
in Eumford went away and did not return for over a year. 
Until the road was built through Woodstock in 1796, there was 
no communication between the two settlements, except through 
the wilderness, guided by a line of^spotted trees. It is said that 
in the spring, Mr. Jackson, being short of potatoes for seed, 
made the journey alone through the woods to New Pennacook 
(Rumford) for the purpose of procuring some of the settlers 
there. He secured the potatoes and started for home late in 
the afternoon, intending to stop over night on the way. It was 
not an uncommon thing for the early settlers, when visiting 
neighboring settlements, to spend the night in the woods. Near 
the brook which passes through Pinhook at the time of which 
we are speaking, was a deserted camp which had been used by 
sable hunters, and which was built after the rude manner 
of those days. Jackson arrived at this camp about dark, and 
decided to spend the night here and pursue his homeward 
journey in the morning. His bag of potatoes was deposited in 
the camp, and he was arranging for a fire, when he was startled 



142 HISTOEY OF WOODSTOCK. 

by a savage scream which almost froze his blood. He had 
heard a similar sound before, and knew that it was made by 
the most dangerous animal of the northern woods, the dreaded 
American panther. He also knew that if he remained where 
he was, he would soon be attacked, and that the old and rudely 
constructed camp would afford him no protection. His only 
hope, and that, under the circumstances, a forlorn one, was in 
flight, and this at once he resolved on. Seizing his bag of 
potatoes, for these were too important to him to give them up 
without an effort to save them, he bounded off through the 
woods at a rapid rate. He struck the Little Androscoggin at the 
foot of Bryant's Pond ; up to this time, he had heard nothing more 
of the beast, and a glimmer of hope entered his heart that he was 
not pursued, but as he proceeded along the river bank, this hope 
was dispelled by the loud cry of the animal, which now seemed 
quite near. He now felt the necessity of putting forth every 
effort, and to this end he threw away his bag of potatoes and 
rushed through the dark woods at an accelerated speed. He heard 
nothing more of the panther for some time, the animal probably 
having found the bag of potatoes, and, impelled by curiosity, 
had stopped to examine it ; hope again brightened, soon to be 
dispelled by the terrible screams of the beast, which now seemed 
nearer than at any time before. The case was now desperate, 
and Jackson felt that the terrible beast might spring down 
upon him from any of the dark trees which seemed to frown 
above his head. In running, his hat was knocked off and he 
sped on without it. It is probable that the panther stopped 
again to examine the hat, and this gave the fugitive another 
short respite. He rushed on, tearing his clothes and scratching 
his face against the brush which he could not see, and guided 
by the sound of the rapids on the river, along which his course 
lay. Again he hoped he might escape his pursuer, and again 
the dreadful cry reached him, showing that the beast was still 
on his track. Why the panther hesitated about attacking him 
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by his cat-like nature, he was playing with him, feeling it in 
his power to accomplish his purpose at any time. But Jackson 
sped on, and now the twelve long miles from the old camp are 
nearly accomplished ; his clearing appears in view, but the river, 
which must be forded, runs between him and his cabin. He 
rushed into the water, and the panther, having come into the 
clearing, and with tlie instinct of his race taking in tlie situ- 
ation, and fearful of losing his intended prey, leaped in after 
him*. Jackson gained a little in the water, and near the opposite 
bank stood his cabin. Calling to his wife at the top of his 
voice, he rushed up the bank ; his wife heard and opened wide 
the door, through wliich Jackson rushed headlong and fell prone 
on the floor. Eealizing that there must be danger near at hand, 
Mrs. Jackson at once closed the door and adjusted the strong 
bar which answered the purpose of a bolt. Hardly had she 
done this when the animal sprang against the door in a manner 
that made the cabin tremble. But it was proof against his 
attacks, and, prowling around in the vicinity the remainder of 
the night, at daylight he vanished into the forest. 



MRS. NUTTING S DILEMMA. 

After James Nutting moved to Greenwood, his wife, one day, 
accompanied by her sister Sarah, who afterwards became the 
wife of Nathaniel Swan, came to Bisbee's mill, both mounted 
on one horse and also having a grist of corn. The road was 
but a bridle path, with trees across it, and they were delayed in 
getting their grist, so that it was dark when they started home. 
When they came to the fallen timber which obstructed the 
road, which they could not see for the darkness, their faithful 
horse leaped, over each one, without unseating the riders or 
throwing off the bag of meal. When within a mile of home 
the saddle girth broke, throwing them both off and also the grist. 
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144 HISTOEY OF WOODSTOCK. 

taking off her garters, she repaired the broken girth, loaded the 
grist, and mounting, proceeded home, where they arrived in 
safety. 

BEARS ON A BENDER. 

The following incident took place in Greenwood, though 
Woodstockers may have had a hand in it: One year the bears 
were plenty and unusually bold and troublesome to the settlers. 
John Sanborn, of Greenwood, after baiting them with molasses 
for a .while, one night mixed with the molasses quite a quantity 
of New England rum, and the next morning had the satisfaction 
of finding two bears stupidly drunk. Calling together as many 
friends as he could to aid him in dispatching his game, a prop- 
osition was made to have a little fun out of it. So, after a good 
drink all around, and procuring several ox-chains and some 
fence rails, they proceeded to securely fasten a rail to each bear. 
They then commenced to " wake up the animals," and with 
one or two men at each end of the rails, they could make the 
bears go in any direction they pleased, and they enjoyed the 
sport hugely. But they kept it up a little too long, until the 
men begun to grow drunk while the bears were sobering off. 
The result was, that some of the men got pretty severely handled, 
and would have fared worse, had not a new relay of help 
arrived and killed the now thoroughly aroused animals. 



ELDER DUNHAM'S RACE WITH THE BEAR. 

When Elder Dunham was building the house south of Pin- 
hook, which he long occupied and which is still standing, he 
had occasion to go up to the store for some nails. His son, 
Eufus K. Dunham, remained at the house, and was upon the 
frame where he could see his father as he returned. He noticed 
a black animal following in the footsteps of his father and only 



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a short distance behind, which at first he supposed to be a large 
dog, but as his father drew near and the animal kept about the 
same distance, he began to be suspicious tliat it was not a dog. 
Finally his father turned up from the road toward the frame 
and his follower also turned up. Eufus then, in a low voice, 
told his father to look behind him, -which he did, and at once 
recognized his pursuer as a moderately-sized bear, and not more 
than fifteen or twenty feet off. The Elder at once sprang into 
the frame, dropped his dish of nails, and seized an axe and 
rushed out. The tables were now turned, and the pursuer be- 
came the pursued. The bear crossed the road and ran down 
through the level land toward the place where Newel F. Rowe 
now lives. Eufus, from his perch on the building, could see the 
whole affair. Near where Eowe's buildings now stand was a 
plowed field, and across this the bear pursued his flight, the 
Elder at no time being more than two rods behind him. But 
the Elder found the bear's strength too much for him, and, as 
he crossed the old road on the "Whale's Back " and plunged 
into the swamp beyond, the pursuit was abandoned. The bear 
went over through the Bryant neighborhood and passed into 
Greenwood near the foot of South Pond, being seen at various 
points on the way. As he passed into " Shadagee," the people 
turned out and pursued him until he was captured. 



A SEVEN days' BEAR HUNT. 

In the spring of 1838, Andrew Eichardson, a famous hunter 
of Greenwood, started a large bear, either in that town or Albany, 
soon after he had come out of his hibernating state and was very 
fat. He was one of the ranging kind, with ■ long legs, and diffi- 
cult to capture. Mr. Eichardson followed him with dogs among 
the Greenwood mountains, for several days, when he struck out 
towards Woodstock. There was considerable snow on the 
ground, and tramping through the snow was very hard for both 

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146 HISTORY or WOODSTOCK. 

pursuer and pursued. The bear was followed through the day, 
and was generally found in the morning but a few rods from 
where the dogs left him at night. His flesh disappeared, and it 
seemed that the longer he was chased the faster he could travel. 
The dogs left him one night in Joshua Young's wood lot. Mr. 
Young then lived on the* place now owned by Daniel Day. 
The next morning, " Bill " Young, son of Joshua, a well known 
local character, not overburdened with sense, went into the 
wood lot to cut some firewood for the house. As he was pass- 
ing along, he suddenly came upon the bear, which had been 
resting through the night, and had just got up, and was looking 
round to see if he could find something for his breakfast. Bill 
came within a few feet of him before he saw him, and when 
confronted by this gaunt monster, he was nearly frightened out 
of what little sense he had. He was so paralyzed with dread, 
that he could neither advance nor recede, but his most prom- 
inent faculty, in which he excelled most men, was in full play. 
He could scream, and that he did scream, no one who at 
that time lived in that section of country has since doubted. 
It was such an outburst of agony as has rarely, if ever, 
escaped from human lips. It echoed through the forest, and 
was caught up by Berry's Ledge and the Curtis Mountains, 
repeated by Molly Ockett and other more distant heights, until 
the country, for a radius of miles, was filled with the hideous 
and indescribable noise. People heard it at their firesides and 
rushed out of doors, and were bewildered at the fearful and 
incoherent sounds that proceeded from the direction of Young's 
woods. But Bill was really in no danger, for the bear, hungry, 
tired and footsore though he was, could not stand this outburst, 
and vanished out of the wood lot and down the hill toward 
Paris, as fast as his long legs would carry him. A large crowd, 
with additional dogs, soon assembled to pursue the bear, and he 
was shot by Asaph Paine before noon of that day. The writer 
of this, with others, was watching the bear at the moment the 
fatal bullet struck him. The bear was on the Paris side of the 



HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 147 

mountain, south of Daniel Curtis' place, and had just come 
upon a bare spot at the top of a precipice, when Mr. Paine, 
who was about thirty rods away, Sighted him and fired. The 
wounded beast fell down the precipice some thirty or forty feet, 
the fall breaking his back ; but he would still grasp the saplings 
with his paws and teeth, and drag himself along ; another bullet, 
fired at short range, put an end to his life and misery. By 
means of a rope, his body was dragged down the mountain side 
and through the field to our door. He was a huge monster, 
and terrible, even in death, to the group of children which 
looked upon him at a safe distance, of which the writer was 
one. Mr. Kichardson soon came up, and putting his foot upon 
the dead beast, exclaimed with an oath, " I told you that you 
should rest from your labors on the seventh day." He liad 
been pursued seven days. 



DEACON lander's BEARS. 

In the spring of 1836, as nearly as can be remembered, about 
the last of March, Deacon Seneca Landers, who was suffering 
from rheumatism, went into the woods to procure some hem- 
lock gum to make a plaster for his lame back. He lived east 
of Piuhook, his road connecting with the Sigotch road half way 
up Billings' Hill. He went southerly from his house towards 
the General C ashman neighborhood, where there was a heavy 
mixed growth bf hard wood and hemlock. There were occa- 
sional bare spots, but the' ground was mostly covered with frozen 
snow, more especially in the woods. As he was passing along, 
axe in hand, looking up at the trees, he was startled by a strange 
noise, and on looking around he saw a large bear crawling along 
on the crust directly toward him. At first, he thought that he 
was the object the bear was making for, and began to consider 
how he could best defend himself from this sudden and un- 
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148 HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 

bear disappeared out of sight. On examination, Mr. Landers 
found that the bear had gone into his den, which was under 
the roots of a lar^e maple tree. This tree had been partly 
blown down, but had lodged in the top of another. Its broad, 
spreading roots were lifted up as the tree inclined, leaving a 
clear space underneath nearly ten feet in diameter and three feet 
high. The surface of the earth was not broken, save in one place, 
and this was the hole through which the bear had disappeared. 
It was capital winter quarters for Bruin, but there was only one 
place of ingress and egress. Mr. Landers took in the situation at 
a glance, and cutting a log as large as he could carry, he chucked 
it into the hole, and then climbing a tree, he halloed for help. 
William Brooks then lived on the William Kowe place, and 
his son Mark, a lad some ten years of age, was standing in 
the yard when he heard Mr. Landers call. He and his father 
immediately started in the direction of the sound, and on 
arriving on the spot and learning the particulars, Mark was 
sent back to Pinhook for more help, while his father and Mr. 
Landers remained on guard. When Mr. Landers first called 
for help, Eufus K. Dunham was coming along the " Whale's 
Back " road towards Pinhook, on horseback, and distinguishing 
the word " bear," he hurried along to Pinhook, and before young 
Brooks arrived, the whole neighborhood had been aroused and 
had started for the woods. Eowse Bisbee seized his old " Queen's 
arm " and butcher knife, Solomon Leonard a pitchfork and rope 
halter, while others took axes and clubs. It was not long before 
nearly fifty persons had assembled and stood around the spot 
where Bruin was bottled up. Mr. Bisbee found that he, in his 
haste, had left his bullets, and a boy was dispatched for them. 
In the meantime, a council of war was held with a view of 
agreeing upon some plan of attack. The plug was pulled from 
the mouth of the den, and the bear, becoming uneasy at such' a 
demonstration, began to march round the enclosure, growling 
and gnashing her teeth, exposing herself to view every time she 
passed the place of entrance. Mr. Leonard had a small dog 



HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 149 

called " Watch," which he tried to send into the den, but before 
he was fairly inside he received a blow on his head which sent 
him bounding through the air, and he did not care to return. 
At one time, as the now infuriated beast was passing the mouth 
of the den, Chauncey C. Whitman had the temerity to thrust 
in his arm and catch hold of her hair, when she quickly 
turned and came out before them all, and such a stampede 
has rarely been witnessed ; some sprang into trees, others upon 
high logs, bat most of them ran away at the top of their 
speed, and the bear, finding herself alone, returned into the den. 
By this time the bullets had arrived and Mr. Bisbee com- 
menced to fire at her, but she grew shy and stopped her 
promenade around the den. They then cut four holes into the 
den, on opposite sides, into which they inserted as many poles, 
and getting the ends under tlie bear, and bearing down upon 
the other ends by a lever purchase, they succeeded in lifting 
her to the roof of the den. Then, with axes and crow-bars, 
they made another hole through the earth over the bear, and 
soon her head was seen through this opening. Henry Packard 
raised his axe and struck her, but the axe glanced off, and she 
received only a flesh wound. The bear struggled and got away, 
and was seen to take dry earth from the side of the den and 
cover the wound with it to stop the blood. They again rallied, 
and the next time they raised her up Elder Dunham struck 
her, cleaving the skull and burying the blade of the axe in her 
brain. They then took the halter and pulled her out, when 
she immediately sprang up, and, standing upon her hind legs, 
uttered a most dismal and unearthly yell, which again caused a 
stampede, but the poor beast immediately fell dead. On ex- 
amination, it was found that she had two cubs, which accounted 
for her returning to the den after she had once driven away her 
invaders, and of her persistency in defending it. One of the 
cubs was shot by Mr. Bisbee, and the other was taken out alive 
by Elder Dunham and kept for several months by Chauncey 
Whitman, when, it being so mischievous, it was killed. 



150 HISTOKY OF WOODSTOCK. 



PERSONAL MENTION. 



In Family Sketches are given brief notices of quite a large 
number of the citizens of Woodstock, past and present, to the 
extent that the space would permit ; and under this heading 
will be given only some account o'f those whose portraits appear 
in different parts of the book. Personal notices here, as else- 
where, are necessarily brief, as* the whole matter of the volume 
must come into certain prescribed limits. They are not in- 
tended even as an epitome of the lives of the persons represented, 
but are simply designed as explanatory of the portraits which, 
without such notices, would be without interest to persons 
unacquainted with the people they represent. The value of 
the volume would have been enhanced by portraits of some of 
the early settlers, but in most cases this was impossible, as but 
few left portraits, and the descendants of those who did were 
not interested enough to furnish them. For dates of birth, &c., 
of persons named here, see Family Sketches. 



JOHN W. BROOKS. 

John Wesley Brooks, born in this town (see " Brooks " in 
Family Sketches), was educated in the town schools and at the 
Academy at Norway. He taught school several terms, and in 
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HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 151 

and went to Portland, and was clerk in a wholesale store until 
the great fire in 1866. He then went to Boston and occupied 
the same position in a large store, and also traveling for the 
firm in Maine. In 1868, he went to Chicago and worked for 
various firms, remaining with one for eight years. Since that 
time he has been traveling for Warner Brothers, large dealers 
in millinery goods and corsets, and in that capacity has visited, 
many times, all the important places in the west and south-west. 
He is also engaged somewhat in real estate speculation in 
Chicago. •He married Ada Blanche, daughter of Levi C. Pea- 
body, formerly of Norlhfield, Vermont, afterwards of Winona, 
Minn., and now of Chicago. 



WM. M. BROOKS. 

Wm. Mark Brooks, born in Paris, came into this town with 
his father's family when a lad. He attended the town schools 
here and a few terms at the Academy, fitting himself for a 
teacher, in which he has achieved a marked success. He 
took to learning as a duck to water, and, without taking a col- 
lege course, he is much better educated in the classics than many 
who have graduated. He also has a rare faculty of imparting 
his ideas to others, which has served to make him the popular 
teacher of youth, which he is. When not engaged in teaching, 
he has generally employed himself upon the farm, in which 
occupation he takes great pleasure. 

ALDEN CHASE. 

No man has been more identified with the affairs of the town 
for many years, than Alden Chase. A good accountant, efficient 
in business, and of sterling integrity, his townspeople have 
always appreciated these important qualities and qualifications 
in a public man, and have given him all the offices he has cared 



152 HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 

to accept. He was a school officer as soon as lie was old enough, 
and as a teacher of the common school he took high rank. 
Naturally of a mathematical turn of mind, he has been a regu- 
lar contributor to that Department of the Maine Farmer's 
Almanac for the past forty years. A lover of books, he has 
collected by far the largest and most valuable library in town. 
He has served several terms in the Maine Legislature, and was 
always an influential member of that body. In 1856, he was 
elected Register of Deeds for the Oxford County Registry Dis- 
trict, which position he held for two terms of five yfears each. 
He was an excellent recording officer. At the close of his term, 
he returned to his farm in Woodstock, where he has since re- 
sided. He is a practical, painstaking farmer, and few, if any, 
men in town understood the business better. He has long been 
interested in Freemasonry, and has served as Master of Jeffer- 
son Lodge for several terms, and as Secretary and Treasurer ; he 
has also served as District Deputy Grand Master. He was one of 
the early workers in the temperance field, and has always been 
an ardent supporter of prohibition as applied to the sale of in- 
toxicating liquors. He was a member of the Maine Legislature 
in 1851, when the first prohibitory liquor law was passed, and 
of the committee that reported the bill, which met his hearty 
approval and received his ardent support. For this action he 
was censured by some of his constituents, but time has justified 
the wisdom of his action. 



PEOF. A. FITZROY CHASE. 

In all probability, Woodstock has never sent out a more pro- 
found scholar than Alden Fitzroy Chase. In mathematics, 
when a mere boy, he was regarded as almost a prodigy, and his 
subsequent achievements in his fully-developed manhood have 
caused to be realized the hopes entertained of him by his family 
and friends in his earlier years. Like most New England 




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HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 153 

youth, he spent much of his minority with his father, upon the 
farm, attending the town schools in winter. He fitted for 
college at Kent's Hill and elsewhere, teaching school winters 
with great success. He excelled not only as a teacher but as a 
disciplinarian, his order of mind being such that everything 
must move in harmony. He graduated from Middletown, 
(Conn.) University with the highest honors, and was soon after 
elected Professor in the Maine Wesleyan Seminary at Kent's 
Hill, which place ho still occupies. He is now in the full vigor 
of manhood, and gives promise of a long and useful career. In 
the college, he has the chair of mathematics and English Litera- 
ture. He is also librarian of the college, and has been instru- 
mental in adding largely to the value and usefulness of the 
library. No person connected with the college labors with 
greater zeal to promote its interests than he. He is very popular 
with the students and with the public, and of the Maine 
Wesleyan Seminary he is one of the strong supports. He is a 
member of the Maine Conference, and occasionally preaches, 
but his time and energies are mainly devoted to the duties of 
his Professorship. 

REV. RANSOM DUNHAM. 

As the head of one of the Dunham families, of Woodstock, 
Eev. Eansom Dunham has already been sketched under the 
head of family sketches. In his 84th year he was a delegate 
to the Eepablican State Convention, at Portland, in June last, 
and then had his picture taken, which embellishes this volume. 
He retains his bodily and mental faculties in a remarkable de- 
gree. In the summer of 1881, he worked for the Grand Trunk 
Eailway, sharpening tools for the quarrymen at Bryant's Pond, 
and during the season was paid two hundred and seventy-seven 
dollars for his work. He is engaged in the same employment 
the present season. Eecently, he remarked in our hearing, that 
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154 . HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 

beautiful to him as now ; that he never before so fully appre- 
ciated the adaptation of everything to the necessities of animals 
and man, and was never before so deeply impressed with the 
infinite wisdom, power and goodness of the great Creator of the 
Universe. He further remarked that the plan of salvation, as 
regarded from the standpoint of his denomination, never looked 
so plain, simple, and certain to be true, as since he passed his 
four-score years. His wife, who is two or three years his 
senior, still lives, and their married lives extend over a period 
of more than sixty years. 

RUFtJS K. DUNHAM. 

Eufus King Dunham, born in Parkman, came into this town 
with his father when a lad. He had the misfortune when a 
young man to have an attack of fever, which, settling in one of 
his limbs, made him lame for life. He worked with his father 
in Woodstock, and attended the common schools here, until he 
entered the store of Thomas Crocker, on Paris Hill. He worked 
here one season, and then entered the store of J. C. Marble in 
the same place. . He was afterwards for a year or two in the 
store of Ebenezer Drake, at Trap Corner, in Paris — then with 
John Pt. Briggs, Caleb Bessee and C. C. Whitman, at North 
Woodstock. He was also for several years in trade, in company 
with Albert H. Estes, at Bryant's Pond. When the Atlantic 
and St. Lawrence railroad was finished to Bryant's Pond in 
1851, he was appointed station agent here, a position he has 
held without interruption since that time, a period of over thirty 
years, and during all these years, he has scarcely been off duty 
a day. A more faithful and competent employ^, the Company 
has never had. In addition to the ordinary duties as station 
agent, he has been telegraphic operator and express agent. He 
was the second Postmaster at Bryant's Pond, and has been Sec- 
retary and Master of Jefferson Lodge of Masons. He has also 
been a Justice of the Peace for many years. 



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DR. JEFF. C. GALLISON. 

Jefferson Gushing Gallison, son of John M. (see Family 
Sketches), was born in Sebec, but came to Woodstock with his 
parents in 1847. He was educated at the common schools, and 
also attended several terms at high schools and academies. He 
was a year in the Norway Advertiser office as an apprentice, 
and afterwards in Noyes' drug store. He then gave his atten- 
tion to carriage painting, and worked in his father's sliop at 
Pinhook and also at Bridgton. At times, also, he tried his hand 
at landscape painting, and with no mean success. In 1868, he 
commenced the study of medicine with Dr. J. H. Kimball, of 
Bridgton, and continued with him three years. He also pursued 
his studies a year in Portland under a private teacher. He 
attended two full courses of lectures at the Harvard Medical 
School and one at the Boston University, graduating from the 
latter in 187"). He practiced three years in Medway, Mass., 
and then moved to Franklin, where he yet remains. He has 
succeeded in working up a large practice and has been very 
successful. He was appointed Instructor in Surgery in the 
Boston University in 1878. He has successfully surmounted 
all the difficulties incident to a lack of means during his pre- 
paratory course, and, by his own unaided efforts, has worked his 
way up to an honorable position in professional life. He 
married, January 2, 1864, Ellen S., daughter of Isaiah M. and 
Abby (Willard) Burnell, of Bridgton, and has one child, Annie 
Louise, born October 28, 1871. 

CHARLES P. KIMBALL. 

Charles Porter Kimball lived at home, dividing his time 
between the farm, his father's carriage shop and the district 
school until he was eighteen years old. Then he bought his 
time of his father, giving his notes for one hundred fifty dollars 
per year for three years, and went to work in his brother's 



156 HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 

carriage shop at Bridgton. Here he added to his earnings by 
working evenings, wooding cast iron ploughs, so that he was 
able to attend school about four months in each year and still 
pay his father's notes. In 1847, he commenced business in 
Norway Village, having but little money of his own. The late 
Dr. Theodore Ingalls, who had taken an interest in him^ loaned 
him one thousand dollars to start business with. He remained 
in Norway, doing a large business, until 1854, when he removed 
to Portland, where he remained until 1875, when he removed 
to New York and joined the great carriage house of Brewster 
& Co. He did an extensive business in Portland and achieved 
a wide reputation. He was Alderman in 1860, again in 1861, 
and President of the Board. He was a decided War Democrat, 
and worked earnestly for the Union cause and for the good of 
the families of departed soldiers. He was a member of the 
Democratic State Convention holden in Augusta, in June, 1861, 
and when the resolution declaring that the war was a failure 
and ought to stop was passed, he, with thirty or forty others, 
denounced its action as treasonable, left the hall and organized 
another convention, which nominated Gen. Charles D. Jameson 
for Governor, who received a much larger vote than Ex-Gov. 
Dana, the regular candidate. He was several times candidate 
for Eepresentative, Senator, Sheriff, &c., but, his party being in 
a minority, he was not elected to any of these offices. He was 
Surveyor of the port of Portland in 1866, was long an active 
member of the Maine Charitable Association, and its President 
for several years ; was also President of the Board of Manu- 
factures until he left Portland. At the Democratic Convention 
in Bangor, in 1869, over which he presided, he received every 
vote as candidate for Governor, but positively refused to stand, 
and forced the convention to nominate another candidate ; but 
in 1871, he received a unanimous nomination for Governor and 
was a candidate that year, and also in the famous Greeley cam- 
paign of 1872. 

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showed his appreciation of his poUtical opponent and life-long 

friend, by appointing him one o'f the United States Centennial 
Commissioners from Maine. Mr. Kimball removed to New 
York in 1875, and resigned as Commissioner from Maine; but 
the United States Centennial Commission requested Governor . 
Tilden to appoint him to fill a vacancy in the New York Com- 
mission, which he did, so that he presented his resignation from 
Maine and his commission from New York to the same meet- 
ing. He was then and continued to be a member of the Exec- 
utive Committee, and no one familiar with the Centennial can 
over-estimate his services. 

His first wife, Mary Porter, was a native of Turner, and a 
niece of Gov. William King and of Gen. Philo Clark, and an 
estimable woman ; she died in April, 1870. He was married 
the second time in 1875, to a daughter of the late Henry F. 
Getchell, formerly of Anson, but then a wealthy resident of 
Chicago, and was so pleased with the business prospects of that 
city that he determined to make it his future home. He at 
once contracted for an immense carriage factory, and moved to 
Chicago in the fall of 1876. He is now at the head of one of 
the largest carriage establishments in the world. He was 
mainly instrumental in organizing the society of the Sons of 
Maine, and was chairman of the committee that gave the Grand 
Maine Banquet in June, 1881. His attachment to his native 
State, County and town is still unabated. 



HANNIBAL I. KIMBALL. 

Hannibal Ingalls Kimball (see " Kimball" in Family Sketches) 
was born on the Gore, but when quite young went to live in the 
family of Hannibal Ingalls, Esq., of Mercer, whose wife was a 
sister of his mother. He returned to the Gore when seventeen 
or eighteen years of age, and worked for some years in the 



158 HISTOEY OF WOODSTOCK. 

carriage shop of his father, opposite tfte Bailey place. He be- 
came an expert workman at the carriage business, for which he 
had a natural aptitude, and at the same time attended the public 
schools. He also worked in the establishment of his oldest 
brother at Bridgton Center. When his brother Charles P. went 
into the carriage business at Norway Village, Hannibal became 
his foreman, and proved a very efficient one. Afterwards, in 
connection with some of his brothers, he went into business in 
New Haven, Conn. He was at the head of the establishment 
that turned out more than three thousand carriages a year. 
Every sort of vehicle on wheels, whether to be used for business 
or pleasure, was manufactured here, and the establishment had 
a wide reputation. At the close of the war he traveled quite 
extensively through the South in pursuit of health, which had 
become somewhat impaired by long-continued business cares, 
and he also had in view a place of settlement. After looking 
the ground carefully over, he selected Atlanta, Georgia, as one 
of the most promising localities in the whole South, and the 
result has more than justified his choice. He went to Atlanta, 
in 1866, and when the people of Georgia voted to establish the 
seat of government in that city, he bought the unfinished 
opera house, and reconstructed it into a spacious, substantial 
and convenient capitol, under contract with the State. In 
1870 he laid out and graded Oglethorpe Park, and fitted 
it up with buildings, walks and drives. In this park the State 
fairs have since l)een held, and here the Exposition is located. 
The same year he built the H. I. Kimball House, a splendid 
hotel, six stories high and 210 feet long, and furnished it to 
accommodate 500 guests, at a cost of $675,000. About that 
time he constructed 150 miles of a railroad leading into Atlanta. 
Some three years after, he planned and organized a company, 
and erected a cotton factory with a capacity of 24,000 spindles, 
which is now in successful operation. 

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HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 159 

lines of railroad were built and old lines diverted from tlieir 
original location, and Mr. Kimball became connected with 
several of them, either as President or Director. When a great 
International Cotton Exposition was determined upon, and 
Atlanta selected as the place, Mr. Kimball was at once selected 
by connnon consent as the person to be placed at the head of 
the enterprise. It was brought to a most successful issue, for 
which Mr, Kimball is largely credited. A leading Southern 
paper, during the Exposition, thus spoke of Mr. Kimball's busi- 
ness capacity and his connection witli it : 

"As a representative of legitimate and enlightened enterprise, and an ex- 
ponent of modern progress, Mr. H. I. Kimball, of Georgia, is entitled to 
marked pre-eminence. He was born in Oxford County, Maine, in 1832. In 
early life lie learned the carriage maker's trade, and at the age of nineteen, 
took charge of one of the most extensive carriage manufactories in the 
United States. Immediately on his majority, the firm in whose employ he 
was, evidenced their appreciation of his executive and financial ability by 
admitting him to full partnership. Mr. Kimball became interested with Mr. 
Geo. Pullman in the sleeping car business early in the history of that in- 
dustry, and immediately after the close of the war he came South to establish 
their lines. By over-work and exposure his health became much broken, 
and the severe climate of Chicago, where he at times resided, compelled him 
to seek a home in the South. After traveling all over the South, he de- 
termined that Atlanta presented more advantages for business and for a 
pleasant home than any other point, and he therefore located in Atlanta. 
Since then Mr. Kimball has been identified with every movement of progress 
and edification of «Vtlanta. Whatever she has that is worthy of her has been 
secured through the untiring efforts in her behalf of Mr. Kimball. He was 
the first to take up the matter of the Exposition, and has pushed it to its 
present prosperous stage. The splendid success of the exhibition, and the 
benefits that shall accrue to the city. State and South from it, are, in the 
main, due to the energy, foresight and superior management of Mr. H. I. 
Kimball, the efficient Director-General." 

At a meeting of the American Agricultural Association in 
New York, during the winter of 1881-2, Mr. Kimball was 
present and read a very able paper upon the resources and con- 
dition of the Southern States, which was pubhshed entire in 
the proceedings of the Association. He is yet in the vigor and 



160 HISTOEY OF WOODSTOCK. 

prime of manhood, and has a future of brilliant promise. In 
politics he is a republican. 



DE. W. B. LAPHAM. 

William Berry Lapham was born in Greenwood, where his 
parents were temporarily residing, August 21, 1828. When he 
was only a few weeks old, the family returned to Bethel, which 
was their home. After reaching ten years of age, he worked 
out by the month or year upon various farms, during the re- 
mainder of his minority. His early means of education were 
very limited, and such as he had neglected, but after becoming 
of age, he fitted for college at Gould's Academy, in Bethel, and 
entered Colby University in 1851. He did not remain to grad- 
uate, but received the complimentary degree of Master of Arts 
from the college in 1874. He read medicine with Dr. Almon 
Twitchell, of Bethel, attended medical lectures at the Maine 
Medical School and Dartmouth College, finished his medical 
course in New York in 1856, and commenced the practice of 
medicine at Bryant's Pond the same year. 

When the war broke out in 1861, he offered his services, and 
received permission to recruit a company, which he did in a 
short time ; but the Government, thinking it had all the men 
needed to subdue the rebellion, disbanded this with several 
other companies raised in various parts of the State. In the 
winter of 1861-2 he was in Augusta, assisting in the hospitals, 
and as assistant surgeon to regiments not provided with a full 
medical staff. In 1862, he enlisted as a private in the 23d 
Maine Eegiment, and served during its term. He was pro- 
moted to Commissary Sergeant, then to Second and subse- 
quently to First Lieutenant of Company F. After his regiment 
was mustered out, he aided in recruiting the 7th Maine Bat- 
tery, with which he was mustered into the United States ser- 
vice, as Senior First Lieutenant. He served with this battery 



HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 161 

which took part in the subsequent great battles of the Army of 
the Potomac, down to the surrender of the Confederate armies 
and close of the war. When the battery was ordered home to 
be mustered out in June, 1865, he was appointed Assistant 
Quartermaster, with'the rank of Captain, and ordered to duty in 
Vermont, where he remained until October 30, 1865, when he 
was mustered out as Brevet Major. 

Returning to Bryant's Pond, he resumed the practice of his 
profession. He was elected a member of the Legislature in 

1867, and appointed a Trustee of the Maine Insane Hospital in 

1868. He served in the latter capacity for six years, the last 
four as President of the Board of Trustees. In June, 1871, he 
moved to Augusta, and in March, 1872, was tendered by the 
owners the position of general and news editor of the Maine 
Farmee, which position he held for upwards of six years, when 
he was tendered the position of Agricultural Editor of the same 
paper, which position he still occupies. He was appointed ex- 
amining Surgeon for invalid pensioners in 1866, and when he 
moved to Augusta, he was assigned to the Augusta Board of 
Surgeons, where he has since served, at present and for the past 
three yeflrs as President of the Board. He was Postmaster at 
Bryant's Pond, a school officer and collector in Woodstock, one 
of the charter members. Treasurer and Master of Jefferson 
Lodge of Masons, District Deputy Grand Master of the Six- 
teenth Masonic District for two terms, and for the same num- 
ber of terms of the Eleventh District. He was Commander of 
the Post of the Grand Army at Bryant's Pond, and also of Seth 
Williams Post in Augusta ; has also served as Medical Director 
of the Department of Maine. He has given some attention to 
Historical and Genealogical subjects, published the Maine Gen- 
ealogist and Biographer for three years, has compiled and pub- 
lished the Bisbee, Lapham and Kicker Genealogies, besides mak- 
ing contributions upon historical and kindred subjects to the New 
England Historical and Genealogical Register and various other 
publications. He is a member of the Maine Historical Society 

11 



162 HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 

and of the Standing Committee, member of the New England 
Historical and Genealogical Society and of the Prince Society, 
honorary member of the Weymouth (Mass.) Historical Society, 
and corresponding member of tlie Eoyal Historical Society of 
Great Britain. He is a member of the Maine Press Association, 
and at the present time its President; is Secretary of the 
Augusta Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, and 
Secretary and a Director of the Augusta Literary and Library 
Association. 



GEORGE F. LEONARD, M. A. 

George F. Leonard received his primary education in tlie 
common schools of Woodstock and Waterford, was fitted for 
college at Norway and Bethel Academies, and graduated at 
Dartmouth College in the class of 1859. He adopted teaching 
as his occupation, and instructed the academies in Norway and 
Paris, in Maine, and in Northbridge, Mass. He was also teacher 
in the English High School in Boston, following this occupation 
for over twenty years. He is now engaged in other business at 
Newton Highlands, Mass. In 1861, he married Miss Jennie E. 
Brunell, of Piermont, N. H. He is a profound scholar and 
succeeded well in teaching. 



ORSAMUS NUTE. 

Orsamus Nute, born in this town, received his education 
mostly in the common schools. He was naturally a good 
scholar, and early became an instructor of the schools of his 
town. He was also a good farmer, and successfully cultivated 
the old homestead of his father for many years. He filled the 
office of Selectman and Superintending School Committee, but, 
being always a Democrat, he could not be elected to any office 




HON. SIDNEY PERHAM. 



HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 163 

where party principles were involved. In 1864, he left his 
farm in Woodstock and moved with his family to Boston, where 
he was engaged in a contract for sprinkling the streets, and in 
various other kinds of business, in which he has been successful. 
He still resides in Boston. 



HON. SIDNEY PERHAM. 

Sidney Perham is an excellent example of a New England 
self-made man. Born in Woodstock, upon a rocky side-hill 
farm, he was early inured to the labor which farmers' sons of 
the period were expected to perform. He developed a vigorous 
constitution, and his work upon the farm, coupled with strictly 
temperate habits, insured robust health, which he has found of 
great benefit in his succeeding years of labor in other capacities. 
When he became of age, he purchased the old homestead of his 
father, and made a specialty of sheep-husbandry, in which he 
was very successful. His flock generally numbered from four 
to six hundred. Becoming early interested in temperance re- 
form, even when a minor and at work for his father, he, with a 
few of his associates, held meetings and addressed them in the 
school districts of Woodstock and adjoining towns. It was in 
these early meetings that he first schooled himself in public 
speaking and in debate. He attended the public schools in 
Woodstock and a single terra at Gould's Academy in Bethel. 
For several years he taught schools winters, and with great 
success. This he continued after he became of age, and until 
he entered upon a more public career, carrying on his farm in 
summer and leaving the care of his stock to hired help in 
winter. He was an interested member of the teachers' insti- 
tutes, which began to be held in Oxford County about that 
time. As a disciplinarian in school, he had few equals among 
his cotemporaries, and his services were in great demand m 
those districts where trouble might be expected from over-grown 



164 HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 

and unruly boys. He was subsequently employed by the State 
Temperance Society to travel and lecture in the interest of the 
cause in various parts of the State. He was a member of the 
Order of the Sons of Temperance, and at one time at the head 
of the Order in the State. In later years, he joined the Good 
Templars, and was here elected to preside over the State organ- 
ization. He was also delegate from both these organizations to 
the meeting of the national organization of the same, and an 
officer in the latter. He was elected a Eepresentative to the 
Legislature from the district with which Woodstock was classed, 
in 1855, and was chosen Speaker. A few years later, in 1859, 
he was elected Clerk of the Courts for Oxford County, and re- 
elected for the second term. But before the expiration of his 
second term, he resigned to accept the position of member of 
Congress from the Second Maine District, to which position he 
had been elected by a large majority. He served three terms 
in Congress, his six years covering the most eventful period in 
our history, that of the war of the rebellion. He took great 
interest in looking after our Maine soldiers during the war, and 
was very popular with them. 

In 1871, he was nominated for Governor of Maine by one of 
the largest conventions that ever assembled in the State, and 
was triumphantly elected, and was re-elected twice. He served 
as chief magistrate of the State with great acceptance to all 
parties, and left the gubernatorial chair at the end of his third 
term with the highest esteem of his fellow citizens. When 
Hon. Lot M. Morrill was appointed Collector of the Port of 
Portland, Mr. Perham was appointed appraiser of merchandise 
for the same port, which position he still fills. During the 
years that he has been in public office, his interest in the cause 
of temperance has been unabated, and he has ever been ready 
to speak and work for the good of the cause at all times and on 
all occasions. 

In religious sentiment he is a Universalist, and believes in a 
faith which shows itself by works. His abilities as a presiding 



HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 165 

officer were recognized in his choice as President of the United 
States Convention of Universalists and on various other occa- 
sions. He has also served as chairman of the executive com- 
mittee of the same body, and is still a member of the committee. 
He is President of the Trustees of Westbrook Seminary, and of 
the Board of Trustees of the Maine Industrial School for Girls. 
He has also served as President of the Paris Hill Manufacturing 
Company and been a Director of the Norway National Bank. 
When he was elected Clerk of the Courts, he moved with his 
family to Paris, where he has since resided, but he has ever 
taken a lively interest in his native town and in all that per- 
tains to its welfare. 9 



CAPT. RUFUS S. RANDALL. 

Capt. Eufus Soule Eandall (see Kandall in Family Sketches), 
though only a little past the prime of life, has been fifty foreign 
voyages and several times around the world. His father and 
older brother were sailors, and when sixteen years of age, Eufus 
S. shipped in the " James Calder " to New Orleans, thence to 
Liverpool and back to Charleston, S. C. He became second 
mate in 1849, and first mate in 1852. Having made seven 
European voyages and desiring to perfect himself in the study 
of navigation, he attended a term or two at Gould's Academy, 
in Bethel. The nrst ship which he commanded was the Bark 
" New Empire," engaged in the European trade. This was in 
1856. In 1863, he had command of the Bark " Windward," 
and engaged in the transportation of government stores. In 

1865, he had the Bark "Acacia," in the West India trade ; in 

1866, the " Ella and Annie," in the Eiver Platte trade ; in 1870, 
the "Gertrude," in the European trade; in 1871, he took com- 
mand of the " Oasis," and was engaged for six years in the 
Peruvian Guano trade; in 1878, after having been at home a 
year, he took command of the ship " John A. Briggs," built that 



166 HISTORY OF WOODSTOOK. 

year by Briggs & Gushing, at Freeport, her measurement being 
2,150 tons, and one of the finest ships ever launched in Maine. 
In this he made two voyages around the world, taking on each 
occasion a cargo of wheat from California to Europe. He has 
suffered shipwreck on several occasions, but on the whole, has 
met with a good measure of success ; and a little more than a 
year ago, at Antwerp, he voluntarily relinquished the command 
of. the " John A. Briggs," in which he was part owner, to his 
first mate. Porter, of Freeport, and came home to spend a few 
years, if not the remainder of his life, with his family, and in 
the enjoyment of that competency which he gained by his hard 
and perilous i?ervice upon^he ocean. During the last ten years 
of his sea-faring life, he was accompanied by his wife ^d 
children. 

CHARLES 0. WHITMAN, M. A. 

Charles Otis Whitman, son of Joseph, Jr., (see Whitman in 
Family Sketches) was born and spent his early years in this 
town. His father subsequently moved to Waterford, and then 
returned here. Charles attended the town schools here and in 
Waterford, and fitted for college at Norway and other academies, 
teaching winters to obtain the means for paying his school 
expenses. He entered Bowdoin College in 1864, and graduated 
with honors in 1868. He taught Westford, Mass., and other 
academies for a few years, and then went to^urope, pursuing 
his studies for two or more years in Germany. He then went 
to Japan, and was engaged for a while in teaching there, and 
then returned to Europe, where he yet remains. 

He early developed a taste for Natural History, and while 
here and a boy, he procured and mounted a very fine collection 
of the birds of Maine. So artistically prepared were they, and 
so naturally mounted, that they attracted much attention among 
ornithological students. When in Naples, Leipsic and other 
European cities, he pursued his studies under highly distin- 




REV. HARRISON S. WHITMAN. 



HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 167 

guished masters. He also engaged to some extent in original 
research in several branches of Natural History, notably in 
embryology, and with such marked success as to give him an 
honorable position among modern investigators. He has a 
clear, logical mind, keen perceptive faculties, is enthusiastic and 
self-reliant, and possessed of great perseverance. He is yet a 
young man, but he has a future of most brilliant promise. If 
life and health are spared him, his name will yet be inscribed 
high on the scroll of fame, for he has all the elements of success 
in his chosen field of labor. 

REV. HARRISON S. WHITMAN. 

Another good example of a self-made and self-educated man, 
is that of Eev. Harrison Spofford Whitman. . He was born in 
this town February 5, 1844. His father died when he was a 
child, and left his wife with three children and very limited 
means for their support. This is mentioned elsewhere. All 
three of the children were natural scholars and early showed re- 
n^arkable aptitude for composing, both in prose and poetry, but 
the subject of this little sketch was the only one that pursued a 
literary course of study. He attended the town schools of 
Woodstock, and at various academies, entering Bowdoin College 
in 1865. Before entering college, and while there, he taught 
ten terms of school in different places, some district and others 
high schools. Graduating in 1869, he took charge of the 
Thomaston Academy, where he remained for two years. From 
there, he went to Dean Academy, in Franklin, Massachusetts, 
and at first had charge of the Mathematical and Scientific De- 
partments. Then he was promoted to the charge of the Classical 
Department at a largely increased salary, where he remained 
until the fatal fire which destroyed all the buildings of the in- 
stitution. In 1874, he entered the Divinity School at Tuft's 
College, from which he graduated in 1877, and was immediately 
called to the pastorate of the Universalist church at Mechanic 



168 



HISTORY. OF WOODSTOCK. 



Falls, over which he was ordained June 22, 1877, and where 
he still remains. He is a good pastor and able preacher, and 
very acceptable to the people of the parish over which he pre- 
sides. He was married May 5, 1859, to Miss Susie F. Warren 
of Great Falls, N. H. 




HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 169 



FAMILY SKETCHES. 



The following sketches of Woodstock families, mainly gen- 
ealogical, though not as complete as was desired, have involved 
no small amount of care and trouble in their collection. No 
pains have been spared to have them correct, but " approxi- 
mately correct " is all that can ever be expected of matter 
embracing so many dates and derived from so many different 
sources. Those who have had experience in this branch of 
history will fully understand all this. We only hope that our 
errors may not be found more numerous than are usually found 
in similar sketches. These are not intended as family records; 
the scope of the work would not admit of our so extending them 
as to embrace dates of bii'th, &c., of all Woodstock families. 
We have generally felt obliged to confine the records to two or 
three generations from the first settlers, and personal sketches 
have necessarily been very brief. These sketches do not em- 
brace all the settlers in Woodstock, l?iit they do represent the 
chief families of the town since its settlement. 

ABBOTT. 

Philip Abbott, son of Philip, of Eumford, and Experience 
Howe, his wife, born December 11, 1800, was here in 1853, and 
kept a bowling alley near the shore of Bryant's Pond. His first 
wife was widow Lucinda White, and he had Lucy T., married 



170 HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 

Barnard Marble, of Mexico, Trancilia, Achsa A., Joseph W., 
Chandler P., Susan and Gurtine M. These were all born before 
.he came here, and Chandler P. was the only one of the sons 
who ever lived in this town. Philip Abbott, for second wife, 
married a Davis, and had other children. Notwithstanding his 
age, he enlisted in the army and served with credit in the 5th 
Maine Regiment. After the war, he moved to Mexico. 



"William Abbott was taxed here in 1830, Andrew in 1864, 
and Alpheus A. in 1871. 

ADAMS. 

John Q. Adams, Jr., came from Lincoln, and was a clerk for 
Henry Howe, at the Pond. He afterwards traded at Pinhook, 
and for a short time kept the hotel at the Pond. He married 
Mary Porter, of Andover, who died, and he went away from 
town. He re-married in Lincoln, and has a family there. 



MosES Adams, his wife a Ridlon, lived in the east part of 
the town. His daughter Emily married Thomas J. Whitman, 
son of Chauncey C, in 18C2. Moses Adams married Susan 
"Walton, of Canton, in 1872, probably a second wife. Louisa 
Adams, probably another daughter of Moses, married Eli M. 
Noyes. Mr. Adams also had sons, one of whom was a soldier 
in the late war, from "Woodstock. 



Dr. Henry M. Adams, son of Dr. Joseph, came here from 
Rumford. His first wife was a Hill, from "Waterville, who died, 
and in 1866 he married Lottie Hill, her sister. He went from 
here to Cedar Falls, Iowa, after a residence of three or four 
years. 

ANDREWS. 

Four brothers, namely, Ziba, Cyrus, Jonathan and Nathan 
Andrews have at different times lived in "Woodstock. They 



HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 171 

were the sons of David Andrews, who moved from Poland to 

Paris. Ziba came previttus to 1826, and built a mill in the 

south part of the town, which is still operated by his son. He 

was a licensed preacher of the Baptist denomination. He 

married, August 8, 1824, Thankful Washburn, daughter of 

Stephen, of Bridgewater, Mass., Hebron and Paris, and had : 

1 Elvecy, b. January 28, 1828 ; m. Moses W. Bryant. 
II Rachel, b. December 18, 1830 ; m. Samuel W. Dunham. 
HI Isaac W., b. July 6, 1833 ; m. 1st, Lucinda Bryant, 2d, Elvira Bryant, 
daughters of Alexander ; he carries on business where his father 
did. 
IV Morton, b. April 10, 1835. 

V Anna F., b. February 25, 1837 ; m. Oscar P. EUingwood. 
VI John C, b. April 22, 1838 ; married Lorenda C. Packard, daughter 

of Henry H. He is a Baptist preacher, 
vn Mary E., b. July 6, 1841. 
VIII Charlotte D., b. December 9, 1844. 
IX Ziba, married a Bean, and was killed by the cars. 

Cyrus Andrews married, first, Eebecca Eobbins, second, Jane 
A. Dow, and third. Prudence Abbott. He had a large family, 
all by the first marriage. He lived in the Perkins neighborhood, 
and his son Jesse also. 

Nathan married Nancy Cummings, daughter of George W., 
of the Gore, and is an itinerant Methodist preacher. He never 
lived much in Woodstock. 



ANNAS. 

John Gould Annas, son of Solomon, Jr., who came from 
Warner, N. H., to Bethel, and who married Patience Sanborn, 
of Standish, lived some years in Woodstock, first in Sigotch and 
afterwards on the farm below the David Picker place. He 
married Mary Edgerly, daughter of Isaiah, of Greenwood, pre- 
viously of Buxton, and had quite a large family, all of whom 
left town long ago. John G. Annas was a soldier in the 10th 
Maine Eegiment, and was wounded at the battle of Cedar 



172 HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 

Mountain. He subsequently enlisted in the 29th Maine, and 
died from the effects of exposure before the close of the war. 



AYER. 

Peter Ayer, son of Samuel: of Bethel, and grandson of Joseph, 
who moved from Standish to Bethel, and whose mother was 
Alice Kilgore, daughter of John, of Bethel, married Betsey 
Swan, daughter of Elijah, of Paris, and lived for a few years in 
Woodstock. He moved from here to Pennsylvania, and died 
there. His children were Alice K., George B., Nancy E., Eli E. 
and Alfreda. 



Thomas Ayer, whose wife was a Durgin, moved into town 
and resided here a few years. Their only daughter, Sarah, mar- 
ried ^William Day. 

BACON. 

Abel Bacon was born and reared in Greenwood, near Wood- 
stock line. He was the youngest son of Benjamin Bacon, of 
Westmoreland, N. H., who came to Paris when a boy and lived 
with his uncle Timothy Smith. When a young man, he married 
Eebecca, daughter of Capt. Lemuel Holmes, of Paris, and moved 
into Greenwood. Abel Bacon was born June 4, 1825, and 
married Cordelia, daughter of Levi Berry. (See Berry.) He 
purchased the farm formerly occupied by Capt. Samuel Stephens, 
and has always lived there. His children are : 

I Herbert C, b. Aug. 19, 1851 ; m. Alice Hathaway, daughter of John, 

of Paris. 
II Walter L., b. July 11, 1868. 

BAILEY. 

Hudson Bailey, born in Portland, a cooper by trade, who had 
spent many years in the West Indies and at sea, came to the 



HISTOKY OF WOODSTOCK. 173 

Gore about the year 1834. The farm he bought was first 
bought of the proprie'tors by Morris Low, who made an open- 
ing and then sold out to Barney Perry and his brother, of 
Buckfield. They cleared some land, but never settled upon it, 
and sold out to Jacob Eeed, of Minot, who put up the old build- 
ings and lived there until he sold out to Bailey. Mr. Bailey 
purchased adjoining lands sufficient to make a large farm. His 
wife was Euth Bradbury, of Scarborough, and his children, 
Samuel, who married Dorcas Maxim, went West and died 
there ; Susan, who married Dj. Asa Smith, of Paris, and second, 
Daniel Dunham ; Louisa, who married JefTerson Jackson ; 
Elizabeth, who married and lives in Cape Elizabeth ; George, 
Hollis, and Hiram, who married a daughter of Isaac Estes and 
lives in Lewiston. Hudson Bailey was the son of Joseph, of 
Portland, who was lost at sea ; his grandfather was also lost at 
sea during the Erench and Indian wars. He built the brick 
house on the Gore in 1847. In his old age he was persuaded 
to sell out and go West, where he lost everything, and came 
back to die of cancer with his daughter at Cape Elizabeth. He 
was a genial, kind-hearted man, and had had rough experiences 
on the sea and in foreign ports. 



BARROWS. 

Asa Barrows, whose wife was Content Benson, came from 
Middleboro, Mass., to Paris, and was among the very first 
settlers. His daughter Polly, who became the second wife of 
Morton Curtis, was the second child born in Paris. He, with 
his son Caleb B, and his daughter Polly, moved to the Gore, to 
a farm afterwards occupied by Daniel H. Crockett. Asa sub- 
sequently went to live with his son-in-law, Curtis, and died 
there. He had, besides Caleb and Polly, Rachel, who married 
John Ellingwood, of Bethel, afterwards of Milan, K H., Asa, Jr., 
and perhaps others. 



174 HISTOKY OF WOODSTOCK. 

Caleb B. continued to occupy the farm on the Gore until 
about 1840, when he moved to Linneifs, in the County of 
Aroostook. His wife was Abigail Barrows, his cousin, and they 
had Emily, Abigail, Alden, Mary, Phebe, Samuel, Caleb, Jr., 
and Hannah. 



BAETLETT. 

TiLDEN and Sylvanus Baktlett, sons of Capt. Josiah, of 
Plymouth, Mass., afterwards of Norway, were settlers on 
Hamlin's Gore. Tilden married Elizabeth Buck, daughter of 
John, lived in Norway and Paris, and in 1816, bought of Dr. 
Hamlin lots numbered 7 and 8 on the Gore. He built a log 
house near where the house of W. 0. Pearson stands. In 1830, 
he sold to his brother Sylvanus and moved a short distance 
into Bethel. His sons were Tilden, Benjamin, Abijah and 
Enoch, the second of which was the only one who ever lived 
on the Gore. He married a Brooks, of Paris, and lived on part 
of lot number 9. Tilden Bartlett also had a large number of 
daughters who married out of town. 

Sylvanus Bartlett married a daughter of Bela Noyes, of 
Norway, and lived on the place he bought of his brother several 
years, and then went to Greenwood. His sons were Bela, 
James and Josiah, and perhaps others. His daughter Mary 
became the wife of Stephen Estes. 



Jeremiah Bartlett, son of Thomas and Elizabeth (Fitts) 
Bartlett and grandson of Cutting Bartlett, all of Newburyport, 
Mass., was born in that town March 28, 1811, and when two 
years of age, his parents moved to Bangor in this State. Jere- 
miah remained in Bangor till 1827, when he went to Eastport, 
and was in the employ of a broker named Samuel K. Tibbetts. 
Afterwards he was in Portland, in the employ of F. 0. Bradley, 
a dry goods merchant. He then returned to Bangor, and was 



HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 175 

for a time, in the employ of James Crosby ; at twenty-four, he 
went into business for himself. He was subsequently in busi- 
ness in Freeport, several years in California, at North Yarmouth, 
at Locke's Mills sixteen years, then two years in Portland, and 
in 1868 moved to Bryant's Pond, where he has since resided. 
September 20, 1836, he married Mary, daughter of Capt. David 
and Zintha Soule, of Freeport, who was born April 9, 1813. 
The following were their children : Frank, born in Bangor, 
June 18, 1837, m. Florence, daughter of Hon. A. G. Piddle, of 
Washington, D. C, in 1866 ; he lives in Chicago ; Frederic H., 
b. same May 19, 1840, died in Freeport, Sept. 16, 1842 ; Fred- 
eric M., b. Freeport March 19, 1843, m. Mary P., daughter of 
Col. John G. Burns, of this town ; he has traded at the Pond 
since 1868 ; William H., b. same January 30, 1846, died at 
Locke's Mills, Aug. 13, 1858 ; Walter H., b. North Yarmouth, 
Sept. 9, 1848, resides in Charlestown, Mass., unmarried. The 
wife of Jeremiah Bartlett died February 12, 1881. She was a 
most estimable woman, and her death was deeply mourned by 
the entire community. Mr. Bartlett married for second wife, 
February 14, 1882, Miss Mary A. Morton, formerly of Need- 
ham, Mass., and still lives at the Pond. In a recent note with 
regard to the public offices he has held, he facetiously says : 

** During the rebellion I was chosen one of the Selectmen of Greenwood, 
and though doing my duty as well as I understood it (as a republican), I was 
not allowed to hold that honorable position but one year, but quite long 
enough to place guide boards in needed places, and have a railing for 
' Johnny's Bridge,' all of which have now disappeared, and only the tongue 
can supply the place of one, and the instinct of thS animals that draw the 
carriages can guard their owners from danger." 



BEARCE. • 

Egbert Bearce, from New Gloucester, married Betsey, daugh- 
ter of Bela Noyes, of Norway. He lived in Greenwood and 
Bethel, and in 1830 came to the Gore. He bought of William R. 



176 HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 

Hemmingway the place formerly owned by John Buck. He and 
his wife both died here. His children were Esther, who married 
George Crockett and settled on a farm near by, and Jonathan 
Millett, who went to New York and kept a hotel. 



BECKLER. 

John Beckler, of Dutch origin, and his wife, of the same 
nationality, whose maiden name was Miller, were living in 
Woodstock in 1802. He sold his betterments, in 1810, to Joshua 
Felf and moved to Greenwood, and subsequently to Albany, 
where some of his grandchildren still live. He had a son 
Francis, a daughter Ehoda, who married Asa Young, and 
another who married James Lebroke, of Paris, afterwards of 
Greenwood. He may have had other children. 



BERRY. 

Levi Berry, born in Falmouth, April 28, 1777, son of Wil- 
liam and Joanna Doane, of Falmouth, grandson of George and 
Sarah Stickney, great-grandson of Major George and Elizabeth 
Frink, and great-great-grandson of George and Deliverance Haley, 
of Kittery, was among the early settlers of Woodstock. In 1799, 
he began a clearing on the lot in the south part of the town 
which is now known as the Daniel Day farm. The following 
year, he was marriefl to Lusannah Bryant, daughter of Solomon, 
and moved to his new farm. He lived here some fourteen 
years and then moved to Paris. He died in Smyrna, Me., Feb- 
ruary 8, 1854, and his wife died at the same place October 18, 
1849. Their children, all except the youngest, born in Wood- 
stock, were : 

I Levi, Jr., b. June II, 1801, lived in Paris and Wilton, and about the 
year 1846, moved to Smyrna, where he lived to the time of his 



HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 177 

death. He married Polly Hammond, of Paris, daughter of Joseph, 
and reared a large family, most of whom reside in Aroostook 
County. 
II Louvisa, b. April 9, 1803, married John Lapham, son of Abijah. 
(See Lapham.) 

III William, b. April 4, 1805, married Sally Lovejoy, of Norway. He 

lived for a time in Woodstock, on the Gilbert farm. He died in 
Norway. His children were Levi, died young; Sarah J., married 
James M. Abbott, of Oxford ; Elvecy, married a Davis, who died, 
and she re-married and went to Massachusetts ; Frank L., has 
been twice married. 

IV Leonard, b. February 7, 1807, married Hannah Pool, of Norway, 

daughter of Joshua, lived in Paris and then came to Woodstock 
and died here. His children, born in Paris, were Edwin R., went 
to California, thence to Nevada and died there, leaving a family; 
Julia married Albion P. Cole, of Woodstock ; Albina S. married 
Wm. H. Cole; Cyrus P. married Lucy Cole, daughter of Col. 
Cyprian, of Greenwood ; Horace C. married Angelia Cole, daughter 
of same ; Geo. L. killed in the army ; Flora J. married Henry F. 
Cole, of Greenwood, and Henry, who is married, and still resides 
in town. 
V Aurelia, b. April 29, 1810, married Elijah Swan, Jr., of Paris, and 
had Leonard B., b. January 8, 1834, who married Mary A. Grover ; 
P. Dustin, b. Aug. 17, 1837 ; died young ; L. Elphreda, b. July 27, 
1839, who married J. C. Perry, of Paris ; Elijah C, b. June 17, 
1842; died young. Aurelia Swan, died April 1, 1864. 
VI Cordelia, b. Aug. 17, 1829, married Abel Bacon. (See Bacon.) 

George Berry, brother of Levi, born in Buckfield, July 30, 
1787, lived for a short time in Woodstock. His wife was Sally 
Swan, daughter of Elijah, of Paris. He died in Brownfield, 
August 8, 18") 6. His children, born in Paris and Hartford, 
were : 

Fenno, b. July 2, 1813 ; m. Cynthia Landers. 

Edward L., b. Dec. 9, 1821 ; m. Carrie Case, and lived in New York. 

Abbie L., b. Feb. 2, 1823; m. J. M. Marshall, of Millford, Mass. 

Wheeler F., b. May 19, 1825; d. July 5, 1851. 

Betsey J., b. June 8, 1827 ; m. William Mooney. 

Elijah S., b, Nov. 18, 1829 ; m. Miranda Parlin, of Paris, daughter of Rob- 
inson P. 

Anna W., b. Aug. 11, 1833 ; m. Lst, N. F. Chapin, of Millford, Mass., and 2A 
Dr. Gray, of Paris. 

George L., b. July 9, 1836; d. June 22, 1857. 
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178 HISTOKY OF WOODSTOCK. 

Hiram B., b. April 20, 1840 ; m. Fannie Merwin, of New York. He was a 
telegraphic operator, and was killed by lightning while working at his 
instrument. All of this large family are dead save two ; five of them 
died of consumption. 

BESSEE. 

Caleb Bessee, son of John Bessee, of Paris, formerly of Ware- 
ham, Mass., married Abigail Packard, daughter of Daniel, of 
Buckfield, and moved into town in 1818. His place was south 
of Pinhook, and was subsequently occupied by Ptev. Pt. Dunham 
and others. He moved from here into Bethel, and in 1854 
back' to Woodstock, where he died in 1867, His children were 
Satina, married Jonathan Kimball, of the Gore ; Huldah, married 
Jacob Kimball, of Portland ; Abigail, married first, David God- 
win, second, Cyrus Goud ; Caleb, Jr., married PJioda J. Buck, and 
also had a second wife ; Hannah, married an Ordway. Caleb, 
Jr., was a trader at Pinhook for some years. He had children 
by both wives. 

BICKNELL. 

John Bigknell came here from Buckfield in 1829. He 
lived on the place afterwards occupied by Joel Perham, and still 
later by Allen T. Cummiiigs. He sold out to Joel Perham 
about the year 1842, and built the public house at South Wood- 
stock, afterwards occupied by David P Hannaford and others. 
He afterwards moved to S.outh Paris. He had John, who 
subsequently kept a livery stable at South and West Paris ;• 
William, who married Mary S. Whitman, and lived in this town ; 
one of his daughters married Benjamin C. Lurvey, who lived 
and died at South Woodstock. 

BILLINGS. 

John Billings came here from Paris. He married Phebe 
Cole, daughter of Eleazer (see Cole), who was born October 31, 



HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 179 

1777. He was born April 30, 1771. He moved to the lot 
afterwards owned and occupied by Capt. Jonathan Cole. Most 
of his sons settled in the Billings neighborhood, on the Sigotch 
road, and he died there. His children were : 

1 Jonathan, b. January 7, 1798, m. Betsey Felt. 

II Silas, b. March 24, 1800, m. first, Armina Whitman; second, Rebecca 
Whitman; third, the widow of Willoughby Russell, of Newry, 
whose maiden name was Kilgore. 

III Lucy, b. February 22, 1802, m. Asa Thurlow, Jr. 

IV John, b. April 25, 1805, m. Hannah Cooper, daughter of Benjamin, 

and lived in Paris. » 
V Charles, b. October 20, '1807, lived in the family of his brother Jon- 
athan; was never married. 
VI Samuel Dexter, b. December 8, 1811, m. Lucy Swan, daughter of 

Gideon; lived in Paris. 
VII Eleazer C, b. January 22, 1817, m. Mary J. Nute. 

Jonathan Billings, son of the preceding, was the first set- 
tler in the Billings neighborhood. He married Betsey Felt, 
daughter of Jeremiah (see Felt). His children were Lorenzo, 
b. April 11, 1821, m. Mersylvia Hemmingway; Phebe, b. April 
25, 1823, m. Wm. G. Bryant ; Augustus, b. November 2, 1827, 
m. Harriet Ptowe ; Lucinda, b. April 30, 1830, m. Timothy 
Eowe ; Columbus, b. June 14, 1839, m. out of town ; Jonathan 
E., b. October 18, 1841, m. Anna Eussell, daughter of Benjamin, 
of Greenwood, and lives on the old homestead. 

Silas Billings, son of John, lived in Woodstock until late 
in life, when he moved to Oxford. He had three wives as 
stated, and several children, of whom Armina, m. John A. 
Clark, 1845 ; Eebecca, m. Deering F. Jackson, 1850 ; Jarvis 
C, who m. Sarah F. Kilgore, of Farmington, lives in Bethel ; 
and a daughter Laura A., who m. Willison Eowe. 

Eleazur C. Billings, youngest son of John, married Sarah J. 
Nute, daughter of Samuel, of Woodstock. He lives near the 
homestead of his father. He had several children, Virgil D., who 
m. Sarah E. Dunn, of Peru, and moved to Boston ; a daughter 
Eoduska, who m. Elbridge G. Wing, and others. 



180 HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 



BISBEE. 



EowsE BiSBEE, son of Charles and Beiilah (Howland), of 
Pembroke, Mass., afterwards of Sumner, Me., was b. October 10, 
1775. He was eight years old when his parents came to Maine. 
He married Hannah Carrol or Carryl of Buckfield. He came to 
Woodstock about the year 1808, and built the first mill in town. 
It stood near Abel Bacon's, He afterwards moved to a farm in 
the Perham neighborhood, on which John Nason had made a 
beginning, and then to North Woodstock, being the first settler 
there. He was a blacksmith and mill-wright, and built a mill 
at Pinhook in 1820. He was an ingenious man, and a man of 
ability, though eccentric. In politics he was a whig, and for 
many years the only one in town. He always represented the 
whig party of Woodstock in the party conventions of the 
county. His first wife died, and he married widow Washburn, 
who survived him, and married first Enoch Knight, and then 
Poxwell Swan. The children of Kowse Bisbee were : 

I Sophronia, b. April 1, 1801, in. Joel Perham. 

II Suel, b. August 13, 1803, m. Milla Whitman. 

Ill Desire, b. January 31, 1805, m. William Chamberlain. 

IV Piram, b. October 8, 1809, m. Aseneth Swett. 

All these are dead except Piram, who lives in Greenwood, and 
all left families. 

Eowse Bisbee was the son of Charles, grandson of Moses, 
great-grandson of John, g.g. grandson of Elisha, and g.g.g. 
grandson of Thomas Bisbee (Besbedge), who with his wife, six 
children and three servants, came from Sandwich, England, to 
Scituate, Mass., in 1634. 

HosEA B. Bisbee, a blacksmith, was here in 1844. He 
came from Sumner. He was married that year to Elizabeth 
C. Clark. His residence was at the south part of the town. 

bolster. 

Lyman Bolster came here from Peru, and traded in the 
Knight store at Bryant's Pond. He was the son of Isaac and 



HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 181 

Hannah (Cushraan), of Paris, and grandson of Isaac, who came 
from Sutton, Mass., and was early in Paris. Lyraan Bolster, born 
March 29, 1809, married Betsey Knight, daughter of Daniel. 
He died here several years ago. Children : Mary Helen, b. 
December 23, 1846, m. Charles R Houghton — she died No- 
vember, 1881 ; Albert A., b. April 13, 1850, m. May Louise 
Dunham, daughter of Eufus K., and lives at the Pond. 



BOWKER. 

Cyprian, Edmund and Harvey Bowker, sons of James and 
Judith (Chase) Bowker, of Paris, have lived in Woodstock. 
Cyprian married Rachel Mayhew, of Buckfield, and had John, 
married Dolly Starbird; Cyprian married Abigail Eobbins, 
James married Harriet Whitman, Rachel died young, Anna 
married Frank York, and there was also a William, who married. 
For second wife, Cyprian Bowker married the widow of Daniel 
Cole, a sister of his first wife. 

EDxMUND Bowker, born October 3, 1798, married Mary A. 
Chase, daughter of Merrill. His son now occupies the homestead 
where he lived and died. He was a farmer and an inn-keeper. 
His children were : Esther C, b. June 11, 1827, m. Danville J. 
Libby ; Anson G., b. June 5, 1828, m. first, Martha J. Silver, 
second, Melissa Harlow; Albion P., b. May 17, 1830, m. 
Angeline Dudley, daughter of Perrin; George W., b. September 
7, 1831, m. first, Sarah F. Carter, second, Francis A. Hilton ; 
Henry, b. April 29, 1833, d. young ; Calista, b. August 11, 
1836, m. Ambrose Curtis ; Charles H., b. October 24, 1839, m. 
Ellen Gilpatrick; Galen G., b. November 1, 1841, died in 
Maryland during the war ; Chauncey C, b. August 29, 1843, d, 
young ; James L., b. August 13, 1845, m. Ellen E. Davis. 

Harvey Bowker married first, Phebe Proctor, and second, 
Diana Curtis, of Buckfield, daughter of Oliver. By first wife 
he had Levi, who married first, Maria Keen, of Sumner, and 



182 HISTOEY OF WOODSTOCK. 

second a Hasey. By second wife he had Phebe, died young ; 
William, died, aged 21 ; Edmund, had two wives, the last a 
daughter of William Brackett ; Delphinas P., married Sarah 
Hopkins ; Kilbon, who married, and Martha E., who married 
Charles Gowell, of Sumner. 



BPJGGS. 

LuTHEE Beiggs, SOU of Ephraim, an original Shaker at New 
Gloucester, was born December IG, 1775. His family was from 
Plymouth County, Mass. He married Lydia Bryant, daughter 
of Solomon, lived in Paris, and moved into the town in March, 
1799, to a lot in the " Thousand Acres." He sold out in a year 
or two to William Swan, and moved to lot number 12, in the 
south part of the town, now owned by Eeuben Whitman, and 
died there January 1, 1840. His wife died February 3, 1861. His 
cljildren, all except the oldest born in Woodstock, were : 

.1 John R., b. in Paris, November 11, 1798, m. Lucy Swan, daughter of 
William, Jr., and lived many years in Woodstock; he was a 
trader at Woodstock Village, then near Abel Bacon's and at Pin- 
hook, the first Postmaster in town, Colonel in the Maine Militia, 
a Justice of the Peace, hotel keeper at Stephens' Mills and Pin- 
hook, and farmer. He moved to Dummer, N. H., and died at 
West Milan in 1881. His children were: Lydia A., b. April 8, 
1821, m. Ezra Churchill ; Eliza A., b. November 22, 1825, m. John 
Lucas ; Cordelia, b. December 8, 1826, m. Levi Seavy ; Columbia, 
b. October 13, 1828, m. Isaac EUingwood ; David, b. October 22, 
1830, died, aged 16; Benjamin M., b. Feb. 25, 1833, m. Maria Gor- 
don; Bethiah S., b. Feb. 8, 1835, m. Anthony Nay; Uriah W., b. 
June 1, 1837, m. Mary Beal; John F., b. March 4, 1839, m. Mary 
Marshall ; Lucy F., b. December 5, 1841, m. Nathaniel Gookin ; 
Alfred II., b. January 22, 1844, m. Amanda Cotton; Luther, b. 
May 26, 1846, m. Dora Bean. 

II Tabitha, b. October 24, 1800, m. first, Lemuel Dunham, of Hartford ; 
second, Daniel Coffin, of Greenwood. 

in Louisa, b. December 14, 1802, m. John Swan; lived in Greenwood. 

IV Luther, b. June 14, 1806, m. Bethiah Swan. He lived in the north 
part of the town, above Bryant's Pond. He had a son George, 



HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 183 

who was killed while at work sawing laths at Locke's Mills, and 
Edwin R., who married a Dow, and lives with his father in Mason, 
Maine. 
V David, b. July 2G, 1808, left town when a young man. 
VI George William, b. February 21, 1812, died young. 
VII Anna N., b. December 2, 1815, m. Benaiah Dow. 
VIII Joseph H., m. first, Lydia Fuller, daughter of Consider; and second, 
Sally J. York. lie lived in Albany. 

Three children of Luther Briggs, viz : Calvin and Luther, 
twins, and Solomon, died in infancy. 



Joseph Briggs, son of Jesse, of Paris, born March 27, 1797, 
married Susan Cooper, and moved to this town in 1822. 

. BROCK. 

Samuel A. Brock succeeded E. R. Knight in the stove and 
hardware business, at Bryant's Pond, and was very successful. 
He married Mandana Cross, daughter of Aaron, of Bethel, and 
had one child, Florence. He went from here to Bethel Hill. 

brooks. 

Dr. Peter Brooks (not in regular practice) came from 
Poland to Woodstock, and, after a short residence, moved to 
Greenwood. He married Betsey Bryant, daughter of Solomon 
(see Bryant), who survived him and became the wife of Jon- 
athan Fickett. His children were : Lucinda, born December 
27, 1778, who became the second wife of Aaron Davis, Jr. ; 
Charles B., married Christiana Fuller, daughter of Consider, 
and moved to Greenwood ; William E., who married Mehitable 
Emery; and Betsey, who never married. 

Charles B. Brooks, who married Christiana Fuller, had 
Eliza, married Azur Herrick, of Poland ; Peter married first, 
Arvilla Buck, second, Hannah J. Swan ; Charles B., married 
Loraina Cole, and lives in Greenwood ; Samuel N., a Free Bap- 
tist preacher, and William E. 



184 HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 

William Brooks, born in Portland, Me., April 1, 1802, son 
of William C. Brooks, born in Malone, N. Y., March 27, 1777, 
and of his wife, Hannah Poland, born in Portland, October 20, 
1780, married first, Dorcas R. Ptawson, who was born in Graf- 
ton, Mass., March 20, 1793, and settled in Paris, where his 
parents came and settled when he was quite young. About 
the year 1837, he moved to the Gore and settled on the lot on 
the side hill south of the Ansel Moody farm. Previous to 1841, 
he moved to Woodstock, living at Pinhook, and afterwards 
between Pinhook and Bryant's Pond. He died in Harrison, 
December 26, 1877. His father died in Paris, January 12, 1850, 
and his mother February 8, 1864. By his first wife, Dorcas E. 
Rawson, he had : 

I A son, died in infancy, unnamed. 

II William Mark, b. Oct. 11, 1827, m. Mary A. Jordan ; lives Norway. 

III Dorcas H., b. September 3, 1829, m. Hazen F. Barker, Eumford. 

IV Augustus F., b. December 20, 1831. 

For second wife, William Brooks married Lydia M. Russell, 
of Oxford, and had : 

V Virintha, b. March 12, 1836, d. 1846. 
The above were all born in Paris. 
Ti Doran, b. on the Gore, December 20, 1837. 
VII John Wesley, b. Woodstock, July 25, 1841. 

viii Anna M., b. Woodstock, May 10, 1843, m. Freeman Emery; resides 
in Caribou, Me. 

Benjamin B. Brooks, brother of the preceding, married 
Jerusha Buck, daughter of Simeon, and moved from Paris to lot 
No. 9 (Gore), where he lived a few years, and then to the place 
formerly occupied by his brother William. He then moved to 
Grafton and died there. His oldest daughter, Phebe, married 
Lysander Fuller, son of Harvey, and lives in Grafton. He also 
had sons, Otis, Aldana, Panama, and probably other children. 
In Grafton he was a farmer and hotel keeper. 




John w. Brooks. 



HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 185 

BRYANT. 

The Bryants were the first settlers in the west part of Wood- 
stock, and gave their name to our largest sheet of water, and 
one of them to the mountain on its western side. Solomon 
Bryant was of that part of Plymouth, Mass., which is now called 
Plympton, where he was born to Dea. Samuel Bryant, and to 
Tabitha Ford, his wife, January 4, 1746. 

He was the fourth in descent from John Bryant, mariner, of 
Plymouth, who married Abigail, daughter of Stephen Bryant, of 
Duxbury. • Solomon Bryant married Elizabeth Curtis, of Haji- 
over, Mass., and moved to Gray, then to South Paris, and about 
the year 1808, to Woodstock, where his three sons and several 
of his daughters had already settled. He moved from Wood- 
stock to Oxford, then back to Paris, and died there in 1826, 
three years after the death of his wife. He was one of the first 
millers at South Paris, the mill standing on the Little Andro- 
scoggin Kiver. His children were as follows : 

I Elizabeth, b. 1767, m. Isaac Curainings, of Gray. 
II Betsey, m. first. Dr. Peter Brooks ; and second, Jonathan Fickett. . 
Ill Christopher, b. March 26, 1774, m. Susanna Swan. 
IV Solomon, b. October 30, 1776, m. Sally Swan. 
V Lydia, b. March 30, 1778, m. Luther Briggs. 
VI Samuel, b. May 9, 1780, m. Lucy Briggs. 
VII Lusannah, b. May 31, 1785, m. Levi Berry. 

VIII ^Abigail, b. , m. Milvin Pool. 

IX Joanna, b. September 27, 1791, never married. 
X Martha, b. June 2, 1794, m. Thomas Winship. She died and was 
buried near Chesterfield Court House, Va., during the war. She 
left one child, Elvira, who married Thomas Chase, formerly of 
Farmington, now of Washington, D. C. 

Christopher Bryant, better known as Dr. Bryant (he was 
a root and herb doctor), with his brother Solomon, came to 
Woodstock in 1798, being the first settlers. He married Susanna 
Swan, daughter of William, and settled on the "Thousand 
Acres," which had been lotted out for the Bryants and their 
relatives. He traveled much through the country in practice 



186 HISTOEY OF WOODSTOCK. 

of the healing art, and was well known to many. After a few 
years he moved to Greenwood and died there. His wife survived 
him many years. His children were : 

I Christopher, Jr., the first child born in town, m. Sally Felt and reared 

a large family. 
II Amasa, b. July 11, 1804, m. Polly Felt; he went West. 
Ill Daniel, b. October 19, 1807, m. Esther Holt. He lived in Greenwood 

and Bethel. His family went West after his death. 
IV Horace, b. May 9, 1812, m. Jane GrifBn. 

V Belinda, b. May 9, 1812, m. Gilbert Chamberlain, son of William, of 
Rumford. 

VI Susannah, b. . She was twice married, and never lived in 

. Woodstock. 

Solomon Bryant, Jr., brother of the preceding, settled near 
his brother, on the lot afterwards occupied by his son Eli, and 
grandson Alfred D. He also moved into Greenwood, but subse- 
quently came to live with Allen T. Cummings, and he and his 
wife died here. His wife was Sally, daughter of William Swan, 
and his children : 

I Sally, b. January 1, 1797, m. Thomas R. Carman. 

II Eli, b. May 15, 1815, m. Arvilla Dudley. 

III Alexander, b. February 29, 1807, m. Cynthia Davis, daughter of 

Aaron, Jr. 

IV Mahalon, b. July 25, 1810, m. Lydia Chase, daughter of Merrill. 

Samuel Bryant, brother of the preceding, came into town 
the next year after his brothers, and settled on what was called 
the Common lot. He afterwards moved to the south part of the 
town, and then to the head of Bryant's Pond, where he lived 
many years and died. He was three times married ; first, to 
Lucy Briggs, of New Gloucester, born September 29, 1776 ; 
second, to Sarah (Jordan), widow of Abijah Lapham, and third, 
to widow Grover of Bethel. His children, all by the first 
marriage, and all, except the oldest, born in Woodstock, were : 

I Rhoda b. October 29, 1798, m. Oliver Swan. 

II Samuel, b. May 9, 1800, m. Rebecca Stevens. 

III Solomon, b. March 11, 1802, died when 16. 

IV Elizabeth, b. November 8, 1803, m. Benjamin Bacon, Jr. 



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T Lydia, b. same date, m. Daniel Cummings. 
Ti Abigail, b. November 7, I8O0, died unmarried, 
vn Joseph, b. December 8, 1807, never married. 



Joseph Bryant, Jr., was here in 1827. Eeward Bryant, 
married Mary Cummings, daughter of George W., in 1835. 
John M. Bryant, of Woodstock, married Abigail Berry, of Ray- 
mond, in 1837, and his son John M. lived and died in this town. 
Cyrus S. Bryant, of Woodstock, married Louisa D. Chad- 
bourne, of Sumner, in 1847. Abijah Bryant lived in the 
east part. These were not of the descendants of Solomon 
Bryant. 

BUCK. 

John Buck was one of three brothers who first settled and 
gave the name to Buckfield. They were originally from New- 
bury, Mass., but lived in New Gloucester before coming to 
Buckfield. He married Abigail Irish, of Gorliam, and lived 
many years in Buckfield. Toward the close of his life, he moved 
to the Gore, being one of the first settlers. He lived on the farm 
afterwards owned by Eobert Bearce. He died insane. His 
children, all born in Buckfield, were : Sarah, m. Enoch Phil- 
brick, of Buckfield ; Abigail, m. Abijah Lapham, of same ; 
Simeon, m. Lois Drew, of same ; Esther, m. John Warren, of 
same ; Eliza, m. Tilden Bartlett, of Norway ; Annis, m. Levi 
Turner, of Buckfield ; Polly, m. Luther Turner, of same ; and 
Phebe, m. first, Benjamin Brown, of Buckfield, and second, 
William R. Hemmingway, of Rumford. 

Simeon' Buck lived in Woodstock several years, on the old 
County road, south of Stephen Packard. He afterwards lived 
on the Gore, and died there. His wife was Lois Drew, of Buck- 
field, daughter of Stephen, and she lived to be ninety-four years 
of age, and died in Grafton. Their children were : Stephen, m. 
Ruth Cummings ; John, m. Hannah Cummings ; Eliza, m. Samuel 



188 HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 

Mattliews, Jr., of Sumner ; Harrison, went early to Aroostook 
County, and m. there ; Jerusha, m. Benjamin Brooks, Batlisheba, 
m. Nathaniel J. Farnham ; Elbridge, m. Parlin, daughter of 
Eobinson, of Paris ; and Melissa, m. George Berry, of Paris. 

Stephen Buck, son of Simeon, lived on the Gore, and then 
moved to Greenwood. He had three sons, Franklin, who married 
Augusta Hobbs ; Lewis A., died of small pox, unmarried ; Cyrus, 
m. Lydia C. Bryant, a daughter Cordelia, who m. Dudley M. 
Needham, of Bethel; and another daughter, who m. Joseph 
Fairbanks. 

John Buck, who married Hannah Cummings,' has lived on 
the Gore a great part of his life, and reared a large family of 
children. Arvilla, m. Peter Brooks, Solomon, m. and lives in 
Canton, John A., m. Mary Lapham, Hannah J., m. Emery Swan, 
Charles H., m. an Estes, Elbridge G., m, Sarah W. Farnham, 
Harrison, m. a Bragg, Arabella, m. Josiali Estes, who died in the 
army, George deserted to Canada, during the war, to escape the 
draft, Jerusha, m. Joseph La Charite, and Lois, who zn. Oliver 
G. Swan. 

BURNS. 

CoL. John G. Burns came from Oxford. His second wife 
was Mary, daughter of Peter Kimball, of Hamlin's Gore, and 
Mr. Burns bought out the old Kimball homestead, and lived 
there. His children were : John ; Joseph, who "graduated at 
Bowdoin College, and went South ; Mary, who became the wife 
of Fred M. Bartlett, of Woodstock ; Etta ; Eliza, who married 
Stillman B. Blanchard, and one other. 

CARMAN. 

Thomas R Carman, place of birth not known, was brought 
up and educated by Capt. Bearce, of Hebron. He was a soldier 



HISTOKY OF WOODSTOCK. 189 

in the 1812 war. He had several brothers and sisters, but none 
of them came here. He married Sally, daughter of Solomon 
Bryant, Jr., and taught school many terms in Woodstock and 
the adjoining towns. Also served many years as a school offi- 
cer, here and in Greenwood, where he removed. After the 
death of his wife, he lived several years in the family of Dea. 
Christopher Bryant, at North Woodstock, and died there. His 
children were : Sylvester, Sarah Jane, Sarah Jane again, who 
married William Welsh, and moved to Portland ; and Milton. 
Mrs. Welsh is the only one that survives. 



CARR. 

Lyman Carr came here in 1861, and wns in business with 
J. J. Cram. He married a daughter of Lawson Hill ; he moved 
from here to Mechanic Falls. 

CARTER. 

Thomas B. Carter was in town in 1837. He lived in the 
hollow, east of the Curtis School House. His wife was Sarah 
P. Green, daughter of Richard, and their children were : James, 
died unmarried ; Sarah T., who became the wife of Geo. W. 
Bowker ; and Lemuel B. They mo^ed to Paris after 1860. 



CHAMBERLAIN. 

William Chamberi^lin, Jr., came here from Eumford, and 
lived many years at North Woodstock. His wife was Desire 
Bisbee, daughter of Rowse, who died, and he married a second 
wife, and moved from town. His children, by the first wife, 
were : Enos C, who married a daughter of Ptuf us Farrar, and 
lives in Bridgton ; and Austin F., who went to Texas and is a 
physician. For second wife, Wm. Chamberlain married Tamar 
Gushing and moved to Biddeford. 



190 HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 

CHASE. 

The family of Chase has always been prominent in Wood- 
stock. Some member of the family have been almost con- 
tinuously in town office since the town was incorporated. 
Edmund Chase, the father of those who early settled in this 
town, was of Newbury, Mass., and a descendant of Aquila, the 
emigrant. He married, November 30, 1769, Esther Merrill, and 
later in life moved to Minot, Me., where he afterwards resided. 
His children were : 

,1 Joanna, b. November 5, 1770. 

II Stephen, b. January 14, 1772. 

III Merrill, b. October 17, 1773. 

IV Priscilla, b. January 22, 1776. 
V Ruth, b. September 3, 1777. 

VI Sally, b. September 5, 1779. 

Tii Abigail, b. April 17, 1781. 

VIII Nathan, b. May 16, 1783. 

IX Edmund, b. December 9, 1785; d. 1878, at Minot, Me., aged over 

ninety-two years, and had been seventy years a Freemason. 

X Polly, b. September 28, 1787. 

XI Charles, b. April 6, 1791. 

XII Abner, b. April 28, 1793. 

Of this family only two, Stephen and Merrill, came to this 
town. 

Stephen Chase married Euth Tyler, of New Gloucester. He 
lived in Lewiston, in the employ of Michael Little, and was said 
to be the first millman there. He also had charge of the ferry 
across the river at that place. He was Imployed by Little, in 
assisting Mr. Greenwood, in lotting out the grant to Dummer 
Academy, and became familiar with the character of the town- 
ship. He finally purchased a lot, situated on the hill south- 
east of the Eicker farm, and his brother Merrill an adjoining 
lot. His journal during the first years of his residence here will 
be found interesting. He was the first Town Clerk, the first 
Justice of the Peace in town, and the first Eepresentative to the 



HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 191 

Legislature. He was also agent of the Proprietors of the town. 
He was one of the early Deacons of the Baptist Church at Paris 
Hill, and a licensed preacher. About the year 1825, he moved 
to Lincoln, Maine, and died there. Children : 

I Clarissa, b. September 22, 1799, m. Daniel Curtis. 

i: Ruhamah, b. June 28, 1801, m. Benjamin Davis. 

III Ruth, b. July 6, 1803, m. Simon Fickctt. 

IV Betsey, b. December 28, 1804, m. Solon Gates. 

V Thomas H., b. December 22, 1806, m. Mary Gates. 
. VI Peter M., b. December 28, 1808, m. Mary Cole. 

VII Cyrus H., b. November 30, 1810, m. Harriet Bailey. 
VIII Stephen S., b. May 29, 1813, d. July, 1872. 
IX Noah C, b. October 29, 1815, unmarried. 
X Dudley P., b. February 14, 1817, m. Olivia Carpenter. 
XI Abner B., b. December 12, 1819, m. first, Hannah P. Norton ; second, 
Frank Butterfield. Resides in Norway, Me. 

None of the sons of Stephen Chase lived in Woodstock, after 
their father removed. 

Merrill Chase married (i) Sally Tucker, March 3, 1796, and 
moved from Minot, Maine, to No. 3 Plantation, in 1802, with 
his brotlier Stephen, and settled on an adjoining lot. He 
succeeded his brother as Clerk of the town, and was a prom- 
inent man in town affairs for many years. He died in Paris, 
January 17, 1860. Children : 

1 Sally, b. February 20, 1797, m. Lemuel Perham. 

II Merrill, b. March 20, 1799, m. Mercy Svi^an. 

III Alfred, b. November 2, 1801, m. Elvira Perham ; no children. 

IV Mary A., b. August 5, 1803, m. Edmund Bowker. 

V Esther M., b. May 26, 1806, m. Galen Gates. 

VI Edmund, b. September 20, 1808, m. Anna Spofford. 
VII Lydia A., b. October 13, 1810, m. Mahalon Bryant. 
VIII Eliza, b. December 21, 1812, m. Zephaniah B. Whitman. 

For second wife, Merrill Chase married Mrs. Lucy (Spofford) 
Felt, widow of Joshua Felt, of Temple, N. H., who died in Wood- 
stock, Maine, in 1812. Children by second marriage : 

IX Luciuda, b. February 9, 1816, m. Gibbs Benson. 
X Alden, b. June 5, 1819, m. Lucy Cole. 



192 HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 

Merrill Chase, son of the preceding, who married Mercy, 
daughter of Elijah and Eunice (Barton) Swan, of Paris, has 
resided in "Woodstock, Sumner and Paris ; now in Woodstock. 
He was the first settler, and built the first mill in that part of 
Woodstock known as " Sigotch." Children : 

Eunice, b. December 29, 1820, m. Darius Sessions ; 

Olive, b. November 14, 1823, m. Ephraim K. Andrews ; 

Elvira, b. May 4, 1828, d. young; 

Elijah S., b. June 5, 1830, m. Augusta Nash; 

Merrill, Jr., b. June 5, 1830 ; 

Elvira, b. April 17, 1833, m. Lucius Hackett ; 

Aravesta, b. May 13, 1836 ; 

Thaddeus R., b. June 25, 1840. 

Edmund Chase, brother of the preceding, married Anna 
Spofford, of Ptumford. He was for several years a resident of 
Woodstock, and served one term in the Maine Legislature. He 
moved with his whole family to Wisconsin about 1853. Children 
born in Woodstock : 

Earl S., b. November 10, 1832 ; 
Otis F., b. July 14, 1834 ; 
Florinda, b. August 28, 1836 
Nicy M., b. September 19, 1838 ; 
Leroy C, b. May 16, 1840; 
Anne S., b. July 24, 1842 ; 
Loanza, b. January 8, 1846, d. young ; 
Lucinda, b. April 9, 1848. 
Arthur, b. May 3, 1853. 

Alden Chase, Esq., brother of the preceding, married Lucy 
Cole, daughter of Capt Jonathan, and his children were : Lucy, 
M., b. May 10, 1841, died October 11, 1846 ; Alden Fitzroy, b. 
October 16, 1842, graduate of Middletown, Conn., University, 
and Professor of Mathematics in Maine Wesleyan Seminary at 
Kent's Hill, m. Louisa E. Allen, daughter of Eev, Stephen ; 
Estella Ophelia, b. September 1, 1846, m. Rev. Albert A. Ford; 
Aquila Montrose, b. June 22, 1854. 





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HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 193 

Charles T. Chase, a descendant of William, of Yarmouth, 
Mass., born at Tisbury, on Martha's Vineyard, came to Liver- 
more and then to Dixfield, where he amassed a large fortune in 
trade. He was the son of Capt. Tristram Chase, who was lost 
at sea when Charles T. was a small boy, and his widow married 
Col. Jesse Stone, He had a family born in Dixfield ; losing his 
wife, he re-married and moved to this town. His house is near 
the junction of the two roads east of Bryant's Pond. He had 
owned real estate in this town some years previous, and had 
improved a cranberry bog near his residence. He died here and 
his remains were interred in Dixfield. 



CHURCHILL. 

JosiAH Churchill came here from Buckfield, and was living 
here when the town was incorporated. He was born May 13, 
1786, and his wife, Eachel Curtis, daughter of Noah, June 18, 
1784. They lived on the farm now occupied by Aaron M. Irish. 
Their buildings were formerly on the old road, near the west end ■ 
of the lot, but when the present road was built they removed 
their buildings to it. None of their children are recorded on 
our records, but he had sons, Ezra, m. Lydia Briggs, daughter 
of John R. ; he was killed by the cars at Berlin Falls ; Levi, m. 
Lucy (Swan) Billings ; and Daniel C, m. Dorcas E. Curtis ; and 
daughters, Nancy, m. Demeric Swan, son of Gideon ; Maria B., 
who m. same, and perhaps others. 



Joseph Churchill, tailor, came here from Norway, and 
carried on business for several years. He married Viana Per- 
ham, daughter of Joel, and had one son, Walter. He moved to 
Norway, and died there in August, 1881. 



CLARK. 



Thomas Clark, wife, Martha (Bumpus), lived in Sigotch, but 
left town many years ago. His children recorded on our records 
13 



194 HISTOKY OF WOODSTOCK. 

are: Thomas S., b. December 23, 1832; Martha, b. March 5, 
1835 ; Granville, b. May 24, 1839 ; William, b. June 12, 1841 ; 
Charles G., b. October 10, 1847. 

John Clark, brother of the preceding, also lived once on the 
road between the Billings neighborhood and Sigotch. He mar- 
ried Susan Ellis, daughter of Dea. Stephen, of Sumner, and 
had Elizabeth, Augustus, and a son, Stephen E., the latter a 
very promising young man and popular school teacher, who 
died in early manhood. Both of these families went to Sparta, 
Wisconsin. Augustus married Armina Billings, daughter of 
Silas. 

CLIFFOED. 

Joseph Clifford came here previous to the incorporation of 
the town, from Buckfield. He was from the Provinces, and his 
wife was Susannah Trull. He was born June 10, 1751, and his 
wife November 13, 1748. He died in 1816, and his wife sur- 
vived him many years, supported by the town ; she was gen- 
erally sold at auction at the annual meeting, and was struck off 
to the lowest bidder. They had a son Jonathan T., who married 
Martha Hodges, who was formerly a Bacon (sister of Benjamin 
of Greenwood), and was the first settler on the Gore. His house 
stood on the shore of North Pond, then called Clifford's Pond, 
just below the old Cummings place, since owned by Hiram Day. 
He afterwards went to the eastern part of the State. They also 
had a son Daniel, and a daughter Katie, born April 29, 1791, 
who became the wife of Gideon Swan. 



COLBURN. 

Jerathmel Colburn, son of Jerathmel, of Dunstable, Mass., 
and Paris, married Eliza Warren, of Paris, daughter of Abijah, 
and had Arabella C, Prentiss M., Emerson J., Elizabeth A., and 



HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 195 

perhaps others. He was here in 1812, and lived in the east 
part of the town. He was in town only a few years. He was 
born September 18, 1781, and died in Paris, aged nearly a hun- 
dred years. He was a man of intemperate habits, and a great 
wit. 

COLE. 

Eleazer Cole, son of Joseph, of Plympton and BridgeVater, 
Mass., born April 8, 1747, married in 1769 Lucy Shurtlefi', born 
October 11, 1751, and came early to Paris. Late in Kfe he 
came here and lived with his son Jonathan. His children 
were : Calvin, m. Betsey Swan (see Swan) ; Cyprian, m. first, 
Lovicy Perham, daughter of Lemuel ; and second, Patty Tuell, 
of Paris ; Jonathan, m. Abigail Whitman ; Phebe, m. John Bill- 
ings ; Lucy, m. Lazarus Hathaway, of Paris ; Polly, m. Joseph 
Whitman, and Tyla, m. Gilbert Shaw. 

Captain Jonathan was the only one of the sons that came 
to Woodstock. He married Abigail Whitman, daughter of 
Jacob, of Buckfield, and moved to the place where John Billings 
had made improvements. Here he lived and died. He was 
always one of our prominent citizens, and often in town office. 
He had the following children: Abigail, b. June 15, 1819, m. 
first, Henry H. Packard, second, Alfred Estes, and third, William 
Yates ; Lucy, b. August 13, 1820, m. Alden Chase (see Chase) ; 
Albion P., b. December 30, 1824, m. Julia Berry, daughter of 
Leonard, and had Henrietta, who married and resides in Massa- 
chusetts ; Ella P., m. Leonard N. Cummings ; and one or two sons 
younger; William H., November 9, 1830, m. Albina S. Berry, 
also daughter of Leonard; Louisa, b. January 9, 1^32 ; Lorenda, 
b. July 20, 1834, died young ; Diantha, b. February 10, 1837, 
m. Eben Cole, son of Col. Cyprian, of Greenwood ; and Judson 
W., b. September 4, 1839, m. Emma Wormwood ; he left town 
when a young man. 

Joseph Cole, from Buckfield, wife, Lucy Bessee, was quite 



196 HISTOEY OF WOODSTOCK. 

early on the Stephen Packard place in Woodstock, but did not 
remain here long. Frank M. and Henry C. Cole, sons of Col. 
Cyprian, have both lived in Woodstock. The former married 
Cynthia A. Bryant, daughter of Alexander, and still lives here ; 
and the latter married Flora J. Berry, daughter of Leonard. 
Southern Cole, son of Calvin, lived several years at the foot of 
Bryant's Pond. He had a large family, several of whom have 
been voters here, namely : James, Dennis, Keuben T., Francis 
and Almon T. His brother, Elbridge Cole, has voted here, 
and several others of the Greenwood Coles have been in this 
town at times. 

COTTON. 

William Cotton came here from Portland in 1811. He was 
born February 4, 1784, and his wife, Margaret Green, sister of 
Richard, was born June 11, 1785. Their children recorded 
here, are : 

I William, b. in Portland Nov. 1, 1804, m. Tryphenia Lunt. 

II Eliza, b. August 9, 1806. 

III Mary, b. August 26, 1811. 

IV Abigail, b. November 8, 1813. 
V Mark F., b. April 17, 1816. 

None of the daughters married here. 

Mark F. Cotton, m. Lois C. Robbins in 1836 ; John S. Cotton, 
m. Phebe Davis ifi 1840, Margaret Cotton, m. James R. Hasey 
in 1851 ; Isabelle J. Cotton, m. Edward J. Yerrill in 1855 ; 
Polly Cotton, m. John L. Noyes in 1862 ; Alice J. Cotton, m. 
Henry H. Russ in 1872 ; Amanda Cotton, m. Alfred H. Briggs 
in 1864 ; Aaron D. Cotton, m. Viola Pulsifer, of Sumner, in 
1866. These were doubtless all sons and grandsons of William 
Cotton, Jr. 

CRAM. 

Jeremy J. Cram came here in 1861 and carried on the jewel- 
ry business in Churcliiirs shop. He married Sylvina F. Cas- 
well, and moved to Mechanic Falls and then back to Paris. 



HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 197 

CRAWFORD. 

Benj. F. Crawford, a native of Worcester Co., Mass., came 
here from Paris and lived at the Pond. He was a shoemaker 
and also Postmaster. His wife was Sophia Harris. He and 
his wife both died here. Their children were, Franklin, who 
never lived here, was a merchant in Portland and went to Kan- 
kakee, 111. ; Sophia B., who married Horace Cushman ; Abbie, 
who married B. Kendall Stearns, and Francis B., who marri'ed 
Susan Eandall and moved to Colebrook, N. H. 



CROCKETT. 

Daniel H. Crockett was an early settler in the east part of 
Woodstock. He soon moved out of town, but later in life he 
lived for several years on the Barrows farm on Hamlin's Gore, 
now a ' part of Woodstock. He was a son of Morris C. and 
Olive (Humphrey) Crockett and grandson of Daniel and Molly 
(Noyes) Crockett, of Portsmouth, N. H., afterwards of Wind- 
ham, Me. Daniel H. was born December 5, 1797, and spent 
most of his minority in the family of Isaiah Willis, of Paris. 
He was a soldier in Col. McCobb's regiment, in the war of 
1812, and a pensioner. He was a shoemaker. He married 
Eebecca Bacon, of Greenwood, daughter of Benjamin, of Green- 
wood, and his children were : 

I Helen, b. April 25, 1822, m. Fessenden Swan. 
II Benjamin B., b. November 26, 1824, m. Lucy R. Wilbur. 

III Daniel M., b. September 29, 1826, m. Harriet C. Yosmus; died at 

Lewiston 1872. 

IV Cyprian, b. April 29, 1829. 

V Charles T. D. Rev., b. March 15, 1833, m. Clementine Bird, daughter 

of Samuel, of Bethel. 
VI Amos Y., b. June 25, 1835, d. young. 

VII Avice, b. March 22, 1837, m. Jonas W. Lane, resides at Gorham, N. H. 
VIII Olive R., b. March 25, 1839, m. Daniel M. Goss, son of Thomas, of 
Bethel. 



198 HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 

IX Harriet B., b. January 9, 1841, m. David T. Foster, son of Eli, of Bethel. 

X Eveline E., b. July 11, 1843, d. 1862. 

XI Virgil D., b. March 6, 1845, d. 1849. 

XII Aaron H., b. September 4, 1849, m. Maria H. Aldrich. 

The father and mother are both dead. 



CROOKER. 

Charles Crooker, from Plymouth County, Mass., came to 
Minot, and subsequently married Betsey, daughter of Daniel 
Packard, of Buckfield. They came to Woodstock in 1823, and 
he afterwards left his family and went to New Brunswick and 
did not return for nearly forty years. He died in Hebron. 
His children are not recorded here, but he had Charles, Jr., 
m. Sally Lapham, Sophronia, m. Thomas Lapham, Daniel, Joseph, 
Joshua, John, Attice, and perhaps others. None of them lived 
in this town after they were married. 



CUMMrNGS. 

Isaac Cummings, his father of Sutton, Mass., was early in 
Gray, where, in 1781, he married Elizabeth Bryant, daughter 
of Solomon (see Bryant Famiry), and moved to Norway. From 
there he moved to Greenwood, and lived a long time on the farm 
afterwards owned by Asaph Paine. About the year 1820, he 
moved to Hamlin's Gore, his farm being part of lot number 9. 
Here he lived until his death. He was an industrious man, and 
respected in the community. He reared a family of fourteen 
children, all of whom grew to man and womanhood, and had 
families of their own. Only a partial record of this family 
could be obtained. The children of Isaac Cummings and Eliz- 
abeth his wife were : 



HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 199 

Elizabeth, m. Consider Fuller. 

Isaac, Jr., m. Orpha Shaw, daughter of Jairus, of Paris, and lived and died 
there. 
Abigail, m. Azur Ilerrick, of Poland. 
George Williams, m. Lucy Pratt. 

Moses, m. Pratt, and died soon after. 

Mary, m. Timothy Wellcome. 
Solomon, m. Cindy Lapham, and died soon after. 
Lydia, m. Daniel. Iluzzey, of Windhaui. 
Hannah, m. John Buck, of Bethel. 
Lois, ra. Joseph A. Herrick, of Poland. 
Chloe, m. Dr. James Merrill, of Hebron. 
Joseph, m. his brother Solomon's widow. 
Ruth, m. Stephen Buck. 

The above children are not arranged in the order of their 
ages. 

Geokge Williams, son of the preceding, lived on part of his 
father's old homestead until he became quite advanced in years, 
when he sold out to his son-in-law, Day, and went West, where 
he died at a great age. He was the first plantation clerk of the 
Gore, and filled the position for several consecutive years. His 
children, all of whom have long since left the town and most 
of them the State, were George W., Jabez, Albion, Isaac, Cor- 
nelius, Caroline, Nancy and Mary. Caroline married Hiram 
Day ; Mary, Eeward Bryant, and Nancy Kev. Nathan An- 
drews. 

Daniel Cummings, brother of the preceding, began a clearing 
on the hill south of North Pond, but subsequently moved to 
Greenwood. He lived for a while previous to his death at 
Bryant's Pond. His children were Sibyl, Samuel B., Elizabeth, 
Ann, who married Lemuel Dunham, Joseph W. and Jabez. 

Joseph Cummings continued to live on part of the old home- 
stead until his first wife died and he re-married and moved to 
Oxford. His children were Melissa A., Henry, Phebe, IMoses, 
Eansom D., Abbie, Clara and Koscoe. The three oldest died 
unmarried. 



200 HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 

Allen T. Cummings, son of Joseph, of Greenwood, whose 
brother was of Sutton, Mass., married Eliza Bryant, daughter 
of Dea. Christopher, and moved into Woodstock, to the farm 
formerly occupied by Joel Perham. He had several sons and 
daughters. In March, 1882, he moved to Bethel and died a 
few days after. 

CURTIS. 

N"OAH Curtis came here from Norway in- 1806. He was 
born in Plymouth, Mass., and had lived in Hebron before coming 
to Norway. He was born August 17, 1750, and his wife, 
Deborah Luce, of Cape Cod, May 25, 1757. He settled in the 
south part of the town on land cultivated by his descendants 
for three generations. His children were : 

I Morton, b. April 8, 1782, m. first, Dorcas Young, daughter of Job, of 

Gray, and second, Polly Barrows, of the Gore. 
II Rachel, b. May 13, 1784, m. Josiah Churchill. 
Ill Noah, Jr., b. November 27, 1786, m. Abigail Tuell, daughter of Abia- 

thar, of Paris. 
IV Seth, b. March 17, 1790, m. Sally Davis, daughter of Aaron. She was 

living in 1882, in Paris. 
V Charles, b. October 22, 1792, m. Jane Dearing, daughter of John, of 

Denmark, and Mary Jameson, his wife. She was living in Paris, 

in 1882. 
Ti Daniel, b. April 23, 1798, m. first, Clarissa Chase ; second, Charlotte 

Estes, widow of Alvah, of Milton Plantation. She was an An- 
drews, daughter of Jeremiah, of Bethel. 

Morton Curtis lived all his life on part of the old home- 
stead, it being the farm where Luke Owens first made a clear- 
ing in 1799. His children, all by first wife, were : Seth, b. 
July 18, 1806, m. Matilda Lurvey, daughter of Job; Deborah, 
b. May 29, 1809, m. Amos Doe, of Paris ; Crosby, b. January 
23, 1811, m. Mary Paine, daughter of Davis Paine ; Daniel, b. 
July 3, 1814, m. Charlotte Paine; Eansel, b. May 6, 1817, m. 
Elizabeth Dacy. 



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CUSIIMAN. 

Bartholomew Cushman, son of Job, of Plympton, Mass, and 
a descendant of Eobert the Pilgrim, was born in Plympton, 
June 7, 1776. His father subsequently moved to Hebron, 
Maine. He married, April 3, 1800, Lydia Dunham Fuller. 
He moved to Paris, and subsequently to Woodstock. His 
children were: 

I George W., b. February 8, 1801, m. first, Clarissa French; second, 
Mary French. 
II Maria C, b. April 29, 1802, m. Ezra G. Fuller, of Paris. 

III Lydia F., b. March 23, 1807, m. Joseph Hammond, of Paris, and 

moved to Patten. 

IV Thomas C, b. June 5, 1816, m. Huldah Jackson, daughter of Nathaniel, 

of Milton Plantation. They had two children, Nancy J., b. Sep- 
tember 3, 1840, and Nathaniel J., b. August 12, 1845. 

Thomas lived some years at North Woodstock, and then 
moved to Paris. 

George W. Cushman, son of Bartholomew, ante, was a prom- 
inent man in Woodstock affairs, often holding town office, Eep- 
resentative to the Legislature, &c. He was also Brigadier 
General in the Maiq,e Militia. He reared his family in Wood- 
stock, and afterwards moved to Paris. His children, by his 
first wife, Clarissa French, were : 

I Samantha, b. January 27, 1829, d. January 9, 18.32. 
II Horace, b. February 2.5, 1830, m. Sophia Crawford, and died in Kansas. 

III George, b. July 18, 18-33, m. Isabella Felt. He died in early manhood, 

leaving several young children. 

IV Anna, b. September 2.3, 1834, m. Otis West. 
V Jane, b. August 11, 1837, m. Benton Russ. 

By second wife, Mary French, he had : 

VI Adna S., b. August, 1844. 

DACY. 

John and Daniel Dagy, sons of John, of Poland, came quite 
early into town. John was a millman, and before coming here 



HISTOHY OF WOODSTOCK. 203 

worked for Michael Lrttle, of Lewiston. He first began on tlie 
Day farm, but finally settled on the farm near the south line of 
the town. His children were : Elizabeth, married Eansel Curtis ; 
John, married and moved early from town ; Sabra, married 
Samuel S. Swan ; Sarah, married Austin A. Gray ; Sophia, mar- 
ried J. Sullivan Whitman, of Greenwood, and Eunice, married 
John Fifield, of same. Daniel lived in the east part of the 
town. 

DAVIS. 

Moses, Aarox and William Davis, brothers, came from 
Salem, Mass., and settled in Poland ; from thence Aaron came 
here in 1816. He settled in the south part of the town, on the 
lot begun on by John True and afterward occupied by Enoch 
Hammond. His wife was Thankful Strout, and his children : 

I Hannah, b. 1785, m. William Faunce. 

II Aaron, Jr., b. 1786, in. first, Lucinda Brooks, daughter of Dr. Peter; 
second, Eliza Dudley, third, widow Nancy Stephens. 

III Thankful, b. 1788, m. Kobert Stockman. 

IV Sally, b. 1791, m. Seth Curtis. 
V Polly, b. 1792, m. Samuel Nute. 

VI Phebe, b. 1795, d. unmarried. 

VII Benjamin, b. 1797, m. Ruhamah Chase, daughter of Stephen, of 

Woodstock. 

VIII Eliphalet, b. 1798, m. Lydia Lurvey. 

IX Eliza, b. 1801, m. Richard T. Lurvey. 

X Nehemiah, b. 1804, d. unmarried. 

XI Julia, b. 1807, m. Benj. Stephens. 

Aaron Davis, Jr., came to Woodstock before his father, and 
was here at the time of the incorporation of the town in 1815. 
He lived on the tarm previously described as occupied by his 
father. His children were : Cynthia, b. October 5, 1809, m. 
Alexander Bryant; Joseph, b. August 23, 1811, m. Jane 
Stephens; Stephen D., b. September 26, 1813, m. first, Abigail 
C. Fuller, second, Lovicy B. Fuller ; Charles, b. April 16, 1815, 



204 HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 

m. Harriet Nute ; Phebe, b. April 10, 18i7, m. John S. Cotton ; 
Lorenzo, b. February 9, 1819, m. Eleanor Packard; Betsey, 
b. September 4, 1821, m. Aaron D. Thurlow; Thankful, b. 
October 19, 1823 ; Aaron, Jr., b. August 23, 1825, m. Lucy 
Pickett; Seth C, b. May 17, 1827, m. Almira Herrick, of 
Poland; Lucinda, b. August 25, 1830, m. Jeremiah Curtis, of 
Eumford. 

Benjamin Davis, brother of the preceding, lived in the south 
part of the town a few years and then moved into Sigotch. 
He was an industrious man and highly esteemed. He was often 
in town office. When quite an old man, he had a field of burnt- 
land corn of over fifty acres. His children, all born in Wood- 
stock, were : Piichard, b. February 21, 1823, died young ; Eme- 
line, b. March 15, 1824; Herrick C, b. November 5, 1825, m. 
Lucy M. Eelt, daughter of Jeremiah ; he is an Attorney at Law, 
has often been in town office, was Representative in the Legis- 
lature, and is serving his second term as Register of Probate, 
resides in Paris; Benjamin, Jr., b. August 11, 1827, lived many 
years in Lincoln, where he married, then returned and lived 
with his father ; has been Selectman and Representative in the 
Legislature; Stephen C, b. May 23, 1829, m. Martha E. Per- 
ham, daughter of Jotham; Ruhamah, b. July 15, 1831, m. 
John Q. Ellis and went west; Nehemiah, b. November 8, 1833, 
m. Mary J. Perham, daughter of Joshua ; he died soon after and 
his widow married Win field S. Ripley and lives in Wakefield, 
Mass. ; Cyrus C, b. September 26, 1835, died a young man ; 
Henry, b. May 11, 1838, m. Maria P. Greenleaf, of Milton Plan- 
tation, daughter of James. 



William Davis was a voter and taxed in town in 1817. 
Isaac Davis was here in 1824. A Davis, also from Hyde Park, 
Mass., lived here a short time and then returned. One of his 
daugliters was the wife of Joseph E. Johnson ; another married 
Daniel Bryant, of Greenwood, another George Barden, and Ellen 
E. became the wife of James L. Bowker. 



HISTOllY OF WOODSTOCK. 205 

DAY. 

Alexander Day, son of John, of Wells, with his brother 
James, came to Poland. The latter was killed by a falling tree 
while they were engaged in making a clearing in Poland, and 
Alexander then went to Minot, and subsequently to Woodstock. 
His wife was Mercy Dacy, whose father was of Poland. He 
first came to the place below Jacob Whitman's, but afterwards 
swapped farms with his wife's brother John. This was the 
place on which Elijah Day now lives. The first opening on this 
place was made by two Packard brothers, of Buckfield, brothers 
of Stephen, but they never moved here. Mr. Day was an 
industrious and useful citizen, and at one time Captain of the 
Woodstock militia. He was a member of the first Board of 
Selectmen in town, and much in town office. His children 
were : 

I Paulina, b. June 2, 1806. 

II Alexander, Jr., b. July 27, 1807, m. Eliza Ricker, daughter of David, 

and bad Daniel, b. January 9, 1834, ra. Martha Powers, of Litch- 
field; Thomas R., b. June 30, 1836, m. first, Maria J. Farnum, 
daughter of James H., and second, Lizzie (Yates) Gilbert; Charles 
II., b. December 15, 1838, m. Margaret Robinson ; John, b. August 
30, 1841, d. August 16, 1864 ; William, b. August 9, 1843, m. Sarah 
E. Ayer; Lydia C, b. April 29, 1845, m. James W. Powers; 
Alexander, b. May 13, 1848, rh. Augusta M. Burges, who died soon 
after. 

III John, b. March 22, 1809, m. first, Charlotte Dudley ; second, Ann 

Dudley (no children.) 

IV William, b. October 19, 1810, d. October 16, 1815. 
V Eunice, b. August 8, 1812, m. Elbridge Fifield. 

VI Hiram, b. September 17, 1814, m. Caroline Cummings, daughter of 
George W., of the Gore. He succeeded to the Cummings home- 
stead, and has since lived there. He had a family of several 
children, and also a second wife. 
VII Daniel, b. September 7, 1816, d. young. 
VIII Mercy, b. December 14, 1818, m. Jared Young. 
IX Nancy, b. same date, d. an infant. 

X Elijah, b. September 3, 1820, m. Mahala Jackson, daughter of Ben- 
jamin, of Paris. lie lives on the old Day homestead in Woodstock, 
and has reared a family, the oldest of whom, Belinda, m. Gavestoa 



206 HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK, 

Cole, of Greenwood ; and James, who resides with his father, also 
m. a Cole, daughter of William H., of Woodstock; another 
daughter m. James H. Farnum. 
XI Belinda, b. —, d. young. 



DOLLOFF. 

Abner Dolloff, from Gray, was here in 1823, but did not 
remain long. He lived on tlie place below David Eicker's. He 
was born January 16, 1784, and his wife, Rebecca, January 25, 
1784, Their children were: Emma, b. July 11, 1812, m. a 
Thorn; Sumner, b. October, 15, 1813, never was married; 
Eosannah, b. October 25, 1814, m. a Foster ; Ephraim, b. 
February 25, 1816 ; Albert W., b. July 27, 1818 ; Martha, b. 
March 7, 1820 ; William D., b. August 11, 1821, and Samuel, 
b. Nov. 14, 1822. 

doughty. 

Samuel B. Doughty came here in 1854 and settled in 
Sigotch. He was by trade a calker, and after he came here he 
frequently spent portions of his summers in working at his 
trade in the ship-yards of Bath. He was born in Topsham, 
October 16, 1805; was the son of Samuel and Sarah (Mann) 
Doughty, the former born in Topsham, in 1781, and the latter 
in Gloucester, Mass., 1785 ; grandson of Stephen and Hannah 
(Wallis) Doughty, the former born on the " Great Island " in 
Harpswell, and the latter in Gloucester, Mass. The grandfather 
of Stephen Doughty is said to have been a Scotchman. Samuel 
B. Doughty, who came here, was married Nov. 7, 1833, to Mary 
Willson, who was born in Bowdoin, February 19, 1815. Their 
children- were as follows : Cassandra, b. in Topsham, October, 
31, 1834, m. November 27, 1855, William S. Pratt, of North Yar- 
mouth, she d. October 16, 1863 ; Mary W., b. Topsham, May 
20, 1837, m. October 21, 1855, to Hatherly Hinkley, of Bow- 



HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 207 

doinham ; Edwin, b. in Topsham, July 21, 1839, m. March 12, 
187*1, Albina M. Smith^of Calais, who d. September 6, 1875 ; 
Nancy G., b. in Bowdomham October 11, 1841, m. June 2, 1860, 
Charles H. Sessions, of Milton Plantation ; Robert H., b. in 

Topsliam, 23, 1845, d. September 7, 1864 ; James H., 

b. in same, August 3, 1849, m. February 13, 1875, Bertie F. 
Leighton, of Machiasport, resides in Maiden, Mass. ; Elijah A., 
b. in Woodstock, February 3, 1856, d. in infancy ; Arthur S., 
b. in Woodstock, June 28, 1857. 



DOW. 

Benaiah Dow came herefrom Paris in 1810. He was born 
in Exeter, N. H., July 25, 1770, and his wife, Joanna Mitchell, 
was born April 5, 1777. Benaiah Dow was a descendant of 
Jonathan, who was early at Exeterji He died in Woodstock, 
January 31, 1852, and his wife in 1859. He lived in the south- 
east part of the town, near Sumner. His children were : 

I Huse, b. January 25, 1801, m. Zilpha Drake. 
II Eleazer, b. December 24, 1803. 
Ill Anna, b. September 19, 1807, m. Levi Andrews. 
IV Benaiah and Ane (twins), b. October 12, 1809 ; he m. Anna N. Briggs, 
daughter of Luther, and she m. Cyrus Andrews ; Olive, b. 
December 8, 1811 ; Pamelia, b. July 2, 1814, m. Joseph Dunham ; 
Dordama, b. April 25, 1815. 

David Dow, brother of the preceding, was living here at the 
time of taking the first census, but soon moved away. He was 
born July 12, 1782, and his wife was Elizabeth. Children 
recorded here: Lydia, b. December 26, 1804; Hannah, b. 
March 14, 1806 ; John, b. October 2, 1808 ; and Jane, b. No- 
.Vember 9, 1814. 

DUDLEY. 

Luther Dudley, of Natick, Mass., married Nancy Wellington, 
of Sudbury, and came to Paris, settUug near the King place, on 



208 HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 

the old road between Paris Hill and the Cape. He died after 

two years, and his widow married Willian Cobb, of Hebron. His 

children came to this town, and were here when the town was 

incorporated. They were: 

I Josiah, b. Jaquary 23, 1792, m. Polly Fuller, of Paris. • 

II Moses, b. October 11, 1794, m. "Welthea Benson. 

III Mary, b. March 3, 1797, m. Joel B. Thayer, of Paris. 

IV Warren, b. July 4, 1800, m. Alvina Barrett, of No. 2, and went west. 
V Nancy, b. June 26, 1809, m. Johnson Holt, of Paris. 

VI Luther, b. December 10, 1811. 
VII Martha, (date of birth not known) m. Otis Bicknell, of Buckfield. 

Josiah Dudley lived for several years in the Dunham 
neighborhood, so called, in Woodstock. He was an enterprising 
and energetic business man, and during his residence in Wood- 
stock, was a leading and influential citizen. He was often 
entrusted with responsible town offices, which he always filled to 
the acceptance of his townsmen. His wife was Polly, only 
daughter of Aaron Fuller, who was one of the early settlers of 
Paris. Mr. Dudley subsequently moved to Paris and died there 
at an advanced age. He left a large property. His children were : 

Wellington, b. June 8, 1817, m. Ann C. Bent. 

Maria, b. March 11, 1819, m. Eben S. Chapin, of Stafiord, Conn. 

Emily, b. October 5, 1820, d. in 1838. 

Julia A., b. March 20, 1822, m. Edward P. Chase, of Portland. 

Mary, b. August 27, 1825, m. Josiah B. Snow, of Orleans, Mass. 

Smith, b. June 8, 1827, m. Lydia H. Stearns. 

Moses Dudley, brother of the preceding, remained only a 
few years in Woodstock, when be moved to Paris and died 
there, and his widow married William 0. Pearson, who moved 
to the Sylvanus Bartlett place on the Gore. His children were : 
Charles, Mary A., James B., married Nellie Bryant, daughter of 
Dea. Christopher, and died on the Gore ; Moses and Euth'. 
There may have been others, but all left town many years ago. 



David Dudley, as stated elsewhere, exchanged farms with 
Noah Curtis, Jr., and came here from Paris, in 1820. He was 



HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 209 

of Sudbury, Mass., and in early manhood came to Hebron. He 

married Eebecka Bucknam for his first wife, and for second. 

Charity Tuell, of Paris. His was the hill farm, still in the 

Dudley family. His children were : 

I Daniel, m. first, Polly Churchill, second, Lovicy Hathaway. 

II Rebecca, m. Eli Washburn, of Hebron. 

III David ; he went to sea and never returned. 

IV Eliza, m. Aaron Davis, Jr. 

V Clarissa, m. Galen Soule, of Oxford. 

Children by second wife : ^ 

VI Perrin, b. February 3, 1803, m. Paulina Dudley. 

VII Laodicea, in. Seth Perkins. 

VIII Arvilla, m. Elia Bryant. 

IX Ann, m. John Day. 

X Charlotte, m. John Day. 

XI Alfred, died young. 

XII Sidney, died young. 

XIII Gilbert, b. November 25, 1819, m. Mahala Curtis; had Perrin, and 

perhaps other children. 

XIV Alsina, b. March 14, 1823, unmarried. 

XV Ansel, b. February 25, 1825, m. Augusta Curtis ; he resides in Paris. 
XVI Josiah A., died young. 

Daniel Dudley, oldest son of the preceding, lived for several 
years on the farm in the Curtis neighborhood, afterwards owned 
by Simon Picket, and since by Simeon Curtis. He was twice 
married as stated, and had children ; he left town many years 
ago. 

Perrin Dudley, brother of the preceding, has ever lived in 
Woodstock since his father moved here about the year 1820, 
occupying the old homestead. He has been one of our most 
valuable and esteemed townsmen, occupying positions of trust 
in town affairs for many years, and always acquitting himself 
to the satisfaction of his constituents. As a military man, he 
had marked ability. In the old militia company of this town 
he filled every grade of office, and subsequently held the posi- 
tions of Major, Lieutenant-Colonel and Colonel of the regiment 
to which his company belonged. When the War of the Ee- 
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210 HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 

bellion broke out he was too old for active service, but he took 
command of a volunteer company, organized for drill at Bry- 
ant's Pond, and nearly every member of his company subse- 
quently entered the service. He was a prudent and industrious, 
as well as public-spirited man, and was able to give his children 
a good start in life, and what is still better, the legacy of a good 
name. May 30, 1828, he married Paulina Pelt, daughter of 
Joshua, and had: Otis S., b. January 25, 1829, 'died May 2, 
1880 ; Jairus, b. October 7, 1831, m. July 3, 1860, Amanda M. 
Clark, daughter of Norman, of Bethel ; he died in Bethel, in 
1881 ; Agelina, b. July 20, 1833, m. July 4, 1853, Albion P. 
Bowker; Clementine, b. May 8, 1835, d. August 15, 1838; 
Margaret, b. June 2, 1837, d. July 15, 1839 ; Otis S., b. April 
11, 1839, m. June 21, 1862, Mahala Curtis; Adelia, b. March 
29, 1841, m. Jeremiah Curtis, December 26, 1861 ; he died 
August 4, 1876 ; Ansel, b. April 11, 1844, m. March 4, 1868, 
Josephine E. Childs ; Amanda M., b. March 31, 1846, in. Janu- 
ary 1, 1868, James Sheran ; Evelyn 0., b. December 20, 1849, 
m. Preeland Young, November 7, 1869 ; Perrin A., b. December 
14, 1853, d. September 16, 1855. 

DUNHAM. 

Widow Lydia Dunham was living in the Dunham neighbor- 
hood at the time the town was incorporated. She was the 
widow of Asa Dunham, who came from Plymouth County, 
Mass., to Norway, and who died at Burlington, Yt, during the 
war of 1812. Widow Dunham was born September 17, 1764, 
and her maiden name may have been Cobb. The following of 
her children are recorded on our records : 

1 . Samuel, b. October 30, 1794, m. Maria Conant, of Sumner, and lived 

in Paris. 
11 Sylvanus, b. July 8, 1797, m. Esther Benson, of Paris, and lived there. 

III Betsey, b. November 2, 1799, m. Lewis Fuller. 

IV Polly, b. November 2, 1799, m. Gideon Perkins; he settled in Wood- 

stock. 





Rev. Ransom Dunham 



HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 211 

V Daniel, b. September 1 9, 1803, m. Mary Durell ; second, Susan (Bailey) 

Smith : also lived in Woodstock. 
VI Joseph, b. May 13, 1805, m. Pamelia Dow. 

Mrs. Dunham also had a son Asa, and two daughters, who 

were not of her ffimily at the time the first census of Woodstock 

was taken. The son settled in Paris, and the daughters were : 

Susan, in. Alexander Hill, of Paris ; Chloe, m. Antepast Durell. 



PtEV. Eansom Dunham was born to James Dunham and 
Mary Eansom, at Hebron, Me., in 1798. His father, born in 
Bridgewater, Mass., February 9, 1754, married Mary Eansom, 
of Carver, born August 12, 1756. He was in the Eevolutionary 
battles of Bunker Hill, White Plains and others. He had a 
large family, but only the one whose name is at the head of 
this article ever lived in Woodstock. He came to Paris Hill in 
1816, and there learned the blacksmith's art, after which he set 
up there in the business for himself. He married Susan Jackson, 
daughter of Lemuel, Jr., of Paris, find in 1824 moved to Park- 
man, where he worked at his trade and also began to preach. 
In 1833, he moved to Bangor, and in 1836 to Woodstock. In 
1835, he preached to the Baptist Church in Paris, and in 1836, 
he was ordained to the work of the ministry and installed over 
the Baptist Church in Hamlin's Gore and North Woodstock. 
He was the pastor of this church for twenty-five years, and of 
its original members only one survives. During these years he 
did much missionary labor, traveling and preaching through a 
large part of Oxford County, also in Hancock, York and Cum- 
berland. He administered the rite of baptism to over six 
hundred persons. He also worked at his trade, and engaged 
much in horticulture, of which he was very fond. Some thirty 
years ago he moved to Bryant's Pond and has since resided 
there. His garden of fruit, flowers and vegetables, in their 
season, has been visited by many persons. His children are : 

I Mary E., b. 1822, m. Sullivan A. Estes, son of Stephen, and had Helen 
A., b. 1851, ni. Austin F. Trull, died soon after; Harry M., b. 1860, 
and Hiram A., b. 186-i. 



212 HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 

11 Eufus K., b. April 11, 1824, m. Abbie B. Estes, daughter of Stephen, 
and had Emma F., b. March 2, 1853 ; May Louise, b. July 16, 1855, 
m. Albert C. Bolster ; Charles E., b. December 16, 1857, married and 
lives at Bryant's Pond ; also Eva. Rufus K. Dunham was the first 
station agent at Bryant's Pond and has filled the position ever since, 
besides being telegraphic operator and express agent. The com- 
pany never had a more faithful and conscientious employe. He 
•was also in trade in the Crockett store with his brother-in-law, 
Albert H. Estes, for several years. 

Ill Hiram, b. . He married a daughter of America Farrar, of Buck- 
field ; went early to California, and died in Arizona. 



Lemuel Dunham, son of Lemuel and Molly (Bisbee) Dun- 
ham, of Hartford, came to Bryant's Pond and married Lydia A. 
(Cummings) Clifford, of Woodstock, daughter of Daniel C, and 
had Jabez W., b. 1859, d. 1862 ; Carrie K, b. February 25, 
1863; Elvira B., b. September 9, 1873. 



DURELL. 

Samuel Durell, son of Peter, of Newton, Mass., born 
December 8, 1767, married Ann, daughter of Samuel Jackson, of 
Newton, and came to Hebron, thence to Paris and finally to 
Woodstock, settling in the Dunham neighborhood. His father, 
Peter Durell, of French descent, came to Newton from St. John, 
N. B., and lived in the family of Dr. Allen. He married 
Euth Fuller, daughter of Isaac. Peter, Jr., came to Hebron, 
and has descendants in Oxford. For second wife, Samuel 
Durell married, in 1830, Mrs. Jemima Randall, of Poland. His 
children, all by the first marriage, were : Antepast, b. May 21, 
1794, m. Chloe Dunham ; Lois, b. January 7, 1796 ; Nancy, b. 
June 13, 1797, m. Abel Bisbee, of Sumner; Sally, m. Luther 
Perkins ; Samuel J., m. Elmira Bent, of Paris ; Mary, m. Daniel 
Dunham ; Flavel, Isaac and Tristram. The Durell family was 
strong and influential in the east part of the town, but they 
went away many years ago. 



HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 213 

EDGERLEY. 

Samuel and John Edgerley, sons of Isaiah and Jennie 
(Libby) Edgerley, formerly of Buxton, and grandsons of John, of 
the same town, bought the Wm. Swan place in 1846. Samuel 
married a Gilbert, of Lawrence, Mass., and John a widow Ben- 
nett (formerly Fifield), of Greenwood. They carried on the 
farm a few years, and sold out to L. J. Gilbert. Samuel moved 
to Waterford, and thence to West Paris ; John went to Green- 
wood, and died there. Isaiah Edgerley, the father, moved from 
Buxton to Greenwood ; he was a long time miller at Locke's 
Mills. 

ELLIS. 

Eleazer Ellis, b. July 19, 1815, and Lucy Gary, his wife, of 
Hartford, b. May 13, 1818, came here from Canton or Peru. 
They lived in Sigotch, but remained here only a few years. 
Their children recorded here are : Lucy A., b. July 29, 1836, 
Abigail C, b. September 10, 1838, and Bethuel C, b. May 16, 
1842. John Q. Ellis married Ptuhamah Davis, daughter of 
Benjamin, in 1864, and went west. 

estes. 

Several persons by the name of Estes have resided tempora- 
rily in this town, all belonging to Bethel families. 

Alfred Estes voted here in 1841, and has lived here at 
various times since. He married Abigail (Cole) Packard, from 
whom he was divorced, and married again. He was the son of 
Enoch, of Bethel, and grandson of Stephen, who married Eelief 
Bartlett. 

Stephen Estes, son of Benjamin, of Bethel, came here in 
1856, and he and his son bought the Gibson house at the Pond. 
His first wife was Nancy Packard, daughter of Daniel, of Buck- 
field, and his children were Stephen, Jr., Eunice, Albert H., Abbie 
Louisa, Horace, Mary and Ebenezer. None of them were born 



214 HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 

here. For second wife, Mr. Estes married the widow of Stephen 
Packard, and lived at Pinhook, where he died, soon followed by 
his second wife. 

Albert H. Estes, son of the preceding, married Charlotte 
G-. Goodrich, of Naples, and came here perhaps in 1855. He 
traded in the Crockett store, in company with E. K. Dunham. 
While here, he was Kepresentative to the Legislature. From 
here he went to Portland, where he engaged in the commission 
business. His wife died, and he went to New York, where he 
married again, and went to Colorado. 

Sullivan A. Estes, brother of the preceding, married Mary, 
daughter of Kev. Pt. Dunham, and has been freight master at 
the Grand Trunk Eailway station here most of the time since 
the road was opened. His oldest daughter, Helen A., married 
Austin A. Trull, and soon after died. He also has two or more 
sons. 

Horace S. Estes, brother of the preceding, lived here several 
years after returning from sea. He lived near the Universalist 
Church, and died there. He was married, but left no children. 

John Estes, son of Stephen, of Bethel, was a voter here in 
1864. He was then quite aged, and had previously lived in 
Bethel. His wife was Sarah Andrews, daughter of Jeremiah, of 
Bethel, and he was the father of Eev. Dr. Hiram C. Estes, who 
married Sophia B. Foster, and is now the pastor of the Baptist 
Church at Paris. He graduated at Waterville College, and from 
Colby University, its successor, received the degree of D. D. 
John Estes also had James H., who lives on the Island Farm in 
Greenwood, and Charles F., who died in California. 

Samuel K. Estes, son of Alvah and grandson of Eichard, of 
Bethel,. was here in 1865. He was a brick mason; his first 
wife a Spofford, daughter of Isaac G., of Milton Plantation ; his 
second, a Whitman, daughter of Elhanan, formerly of this town. 
He moved from here to Bethel. .. 



HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 215 

FARNUM. 

James H. Farnum came here from Eumford in 1855, and 
lived in the Gibson house at the Pond. He had been Kepre- 
sentative and State Senator. He was the son of David Farnum, 
who came from Concord, N. H., to Eumford, and of Dorcas 
Wheeler, his wife. He married Clarissa Hoyt, daughter of 
Ezra, who came from Concord, N. H., and settled in Andover, 
North Surplus. Mr. Farnum was a dealer in neat stock, and 
also engaged in trade with C. P. Knight. He died here of typhoid 
fever. His children, born in Rumford, were: Juliette, m. 
Charles P. Knight ; Martha H., m. Thomas S. Bridgham ; 
Charles W., who married a Wardwell, daughter of Joseph, of 
Ptumford, and who died in the army ; Maria G-., who married 
Thomas R Day ; Laura A., who married and lives in Ports- 
mouth, N. H. ; Abbie, married Edmund M. Hobbs and moved 
to Providence, R. I. ; and James H., Jr., who married a daughter 
of Elijah Day. *" 



Samuel Farnum, of Concord, N. H., was a voter here in 
1843. He lived in the Billings neighborhood. He had sons, 
Nathaniel J. and Gilman, and a daughter Laura, who became 
the wife of Richard Estes. 

Nathaniel J. Farnum, son of the preceding, married Basheba 
Buck, daughter of Simeon, and lived in the Billings neighbor- 
hood. He had Nathaniel, who married Deborah A. Tracy, 
David A., who married Frances E. Swan, Richard E., and 
daughters, Melissa J., married Charles J. Tracy, Sarah W. mar- 
ried Elbridge G. Buck, and others. 

Gilman W. Farnum, brother of the preceding, whose wife 
was Amy Bean, daughter of Luther, has the following children 
recorded here : Lewis E., b. September 20, 1841 ; Sumner C, 
b. January 14, 1843 ; Luther B., b. September 25, 1845. 

Gilman Farnum, brother of the preceding, married a daughter 
of Luther Bean, of Rumford. He has lived in this town and in 



216 HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 

Milton Plantation, and had several sons and perhaps daughters. 
One or more of his sons were in the Union Army in the late 
war. 

FARRAR,. 

Thomas Farear, Jr., born in Scituate, Mass., September 6, 
1775, married March 25, 1798, Desire Curtis, of Hanover, born 
February 1, 1778. He first moved to Townsend, then to Buck- 
field, Me., subsequently to Paris, and in 1815 to this town. 
He first lived in the house with Eowse Bisbee. Subsequently, 
he went back to Paris, and in 1818 returned here and com- 
menced on the farm on Billings' Hill, afterwards owned by 
Henry H. Packard. Then he moved to the place north of 
Pinhook, where he died. His children were : 

I Freeman, b. May 2, 1799, m. first, Hannah P. Curtis, of Hanover, 
Mass., and second, Edna Johnson, of Jefferson. He spent most 
of his days in eastern Maine, but in old age he returned here and 
died on the old homestead of his father. He had George, b. 1825, 
and Allen B., b. in 1829. 

II Judith, b. September 4, 1801, m. Calvin Jackson. 
Ill Abigail, b. February 18, 1804, never married. 

IV Thomas, Jr., b. May 22, 1806, m. Betsey Moody, daughter of Josiah. 
He has lived mostly away from this town. He had a large family, 
among whom were George H., Edwin, who married widow Dorcas 
(Bartlett) Haines, of Bethel, and was killed in the battle of 
Fredericksburg, and Thomas, Jr. 
V Rufus, b. December 18, 1608, m. Chloe Fuller, daughter of Consider. 
He has spent most of his life in town. His first wife died in 1881, 
• and he married Lovicy (Whitman) Spofford, widow of Isaac G. 
Spofford. His children, all by the first wife, were : Lois, b. Au- 
gust 2.3, 1832, m. Sidney Farnum, of Paris, son of Simeon; Na- 
thaniel G., b. February 5, 1834, m. Martha Brown, of Paris ; Rufus, 
Jr., b. February 20, 1836, m. Angelia Whitman ; Algernon S., b. 
June 9, 1840, m. Helen M. Judkins ; Consider F., b. March 3, 1842, 
m. Mary Felt; Almon J., b. September 2, 1843, m. Henrietta 
Bishop, daughter of Cyrus, of Peru ; Leroy, b. July 22, 1845, m. 
Lucy Robinson, of Paris ; Elizabeth C, b. December 28, 1846, m. 
Enos C. Chamberlain, son of William, Jr. ; Francis R., b. Septem- 
ber 11, 1849. 

VI Julia, b. May 18, 1813. 



HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 217 

VII Joseph, b. September 25, 1815. 
viii Benj. F., b. September 8, 1822, m., first, Semantha Rowe, daughter of 
"William, and second, Dorcas W. Hanson. He has lived more or 
less in Woodstock, but has no children on record here. 



FELT. 

Joshua Felt, son of Peter and Lucy Andrews Felt, of Lynn, 

Mass., afterwards of Temple, N. H., born in Temple, March 4, 

1773, married Lucy Spofford, and previously to 1800 moved to 

Eumford, Me. His place was about two miles below Eumford 

Corner. In 1810, he came into this town and settled on a lot 

where John Beckler had made improvements. He died May 1, 

1812, and his widow married Merrill Chase (see Chase). Their 

children were : 

I Lucy, b. May 11, 1795, m. Jotham Perham. 

II Jeremiah, b. February 20, 1797, m. Eliza Perkins. 

III Artemas, b. October 15, 1800, m. Desire Stephens. 

IV Sally, b. December 21, 1802, m. Christopher Biyant. 

V Elizabeth, b. December 11, 1804, m. Jonathan Billings. 

VI Polly E., b. March 4, 1807, m. Amasa Bryant. 

VII John G., b. August 22, 1809, m. Ayer Lawrence, of Jaffrey, N. H. 

VIII Paulina, b. August 7, 1811, m. Perrin Dudley. 

Jeremiah Felt, son of the preceding, married Eliza Perkins. 
He was a worthy member of the Society of Friends, the only 
one in town, and he lived up to the principles of the sect. He 
was much respected by his fellow townsmen. His children 
were: Alonzo, b. December 18, 1819, d. young; Samuel P., 
b. December 18, 1821, d. young; Earl, b. March 22, 1824, d. 
young ; EHza A., b. March 22, 1827, m. Chester D. Fickett ; 
Lucy, M., b. April 29, 1829, m. Herrick C. Davis ; Mehitable, m. 
John Hathaway, son of Lazarus, of Paris ; Alonzo, b. Septem- 
ber 11, 1833, m. Emily Bryant, daughter of Dustin, of Green- 
wood; Isabella, b. July 16, 1836, m. George Cushman ; Mary 
P., b. December 20, 1838, m. Consider Farrar ; Sibyl J., b. Octo- 
ber 14, 1841, m. Samuel Euss, son of James. 

Artemas Felt, brother of the preceding, married Desire 



218 HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 

Stephens, daughter of Capt. Samuel. He early moved to Green- 
wood. He had a large family. His sons were Jesse, Samuel 
and Artemas, and his daughters. Desire, Lucy, m. Abner C. 
Libby, Betsey, m. Dr. 0. K. Yates, and Eliza, m. Van Buren 
Stephens. 

John G. Felt, brother of the preceding, lived on a farm south 
of Jeremiah's. He married Ayer Lawrence, of Jaffrey, N. H., 
and had : Albert L., b. September 26, 1831, m. a Davis, of 
Massachusetts ; Amelia, b. June 7, 1833, m. Wm. H. Hemraing- 
way ; Granville, b. June 14, 1835, m. Clara Whitman, daughter 
of Jacob, Jr. ; Adeline, b. November 17, 1837, m. Wm. H. 
Proctor; Christina C, b. January 12, 1840, m. Frank Proctor; 
Eliza J., b. October 16, 1841, m. Francis P. Putnam ; Jeremiah, 
b. August 11, 1843, d. unmarried; Gracie, b. April 8, 1845, m. 
Jeremiah Verrill. 

FICKETT. 

Jonathan Figkett came here from Poland in 1818, and 
settled on what has since been known as the Nute farm. His 
first wife was Sarah Cox, and he had : 

I Simon, m. Ruth Cbase, daughter of Stephen. 

II Woodbury, m. Sarah Smith, and went to western New York. 

Ill Charlotte, m. Zenas Briggs. 

IV Betsey, m. Samuel Nute. 

V Judith, m. Thomas J. Dunbar, resides in Springfield, Mass. 

By second wife, who was Betsey Bryant, daughter of Sol- 
omon, and widow of Dr. Peter Brooks, he had : 

VI Jonathan, Jr., m. Betsey B. Fuller. 
VII Joanna, m. John Herrick, of Poland. 

Simon Figkett was an enterprising and industrious citizen. 
He lived in the Curtis neighborhood until near the close of his 
life, when he moved across the line into Paris. He was drowned 
in the Little Androscoggin River, at West Paris. By his wife, 
Ruth Chase, he had : Chester D., b. March 31, 1826, m. Eliza 
J. Felt; Charlotte, b. January 13, 1828, m. Levi T. Lurvey; 



HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 219 

Betsey G., b. December 9, 1830, m. Simeon B. Curtis ; Peter C, 
b. November 9, 1834, is an Attorney at Law at West Paris ; 
Mary J., b. February 19, 1840, died young; Juliette, b. June 

12, 1850, m. Hannibal Curtis. 

Jonathan Fickett, half brother of the preceding, married 
Betsey B. Fuller, daughter of Consider, and had : Lucy, b. 
April 4, 1839, m. Aaron Davis, Jr.; William H., b. November 

13, 1844, died young. 

FOBES. 

Benjamin Forbes born August 29, 1776, wife, Bethiah, born 

September 15, 1779, were in the east part of the town in 1815, 

but did not long remain. Their children were : • 

I Ann, b. August 4, 1801. 

II Arno, or Arzo, b. April 22, 1804. 

III William, b. July 31, 1806. 

IV Bethiah, b. January 18, 1812. 
V Xelson, b. March 23, 1814. 



FRENCH. 

John S. French, from New Hampshire, whose wife was 
Polly Libby, was at Norway in 1825, and moved that year to 
Oxford. In 1843, he moved to North Woodstock, to the small 
house built by Joel Perham, near where the Woodstock town 
house once stood, and moved from there to North Woodstock 
by Gen. George W. Cushman. He died April 8, 1858, and his 
wife, April 16, 1857. Their children were ; Abigail, b. January 
1802, m. Nathaniel Millett, of Norway, afterwards of Greenwood ; 
Enoch, b. February 15, 1804, m. Harriet Eowe, of Norway; 
Clarissa L., b. December 16, 1806, m. George W. Cushman; 
Joseph, b. December 12, 1809, m. Lorania Edwards, of Poland ; 
Mary, b. September 10, 1812, m. George W. Cushman ; John S. 
Jr., b. October 8, 1814; Sarah A., b. October 30, 1817, m. John 



220 HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 

M. Gallison, of Norway; Hannah L., b. June 4, 1820, m. 
Thaddeus E. Knight. 

FEYE. 

Joseph Frye, a native of Durham, in 1854, or earlier, bought 
of A. K. P. Whitman most of the real estate where the Pond 
village now is. He was the first hotel keeper there. He after- 
wards built him a house, which was burned, and he built 
another. He was a mechanical genius, and spent some 'time m 
trying to perfect a wind-mill, but did not succeed. He had a 
son. Oren, who was taxed here in 1855, but his house was burned 
and he moved away. Joseph Prye, for second wife, married 
widow Ptandall, of Preeport, whose maiden name was Lydia 
Mitchell, and several of her children came here with her. 
John and Eufus Randall were master mariners ; Mary E., mar- 
ried Geo. E. Gibson and moved to Norway ; Susan J., married 
Francis B. Crawford and moved to Colebrook, N. H. ; Sarah, 
unmarried. Mr. Prye's youngest son George, half brother to 
the preceding, went to Colebrook, N. H. Mr. Prye moved to 
Yarmouth and died there. 

FULLER. 

Consider Puller was among the early settlers here. About 
the year 1801, he built a log hut on Gore B, on the old County 
road, north of Solomon Bryant's, and moved there. He was 
born in Plympton, Mass., May 31, 1780. His father was 
Consider Puller and his mother Lydia Bryant, daughter of 
Samuel and sister of Solomon, Senior. His father died, and his' 
mother came with her family and joined the Shakers at New 
Gloucester. When Consider was of age, he left them and came 
to Paris, where he married Elizabeth, daughter of Isaac Cum- 
mings. He lived in Woodstock only a few years, and then 
moved to Greenwood. He died at West Paris in 1872. His 
children were : 



HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 221 

I Christiana, b. January 2, 1802, m. Charles B. Brooks. 

II Chloe, b. February 23, 1807, m. Rufus Farrar. 

Ill Lucy B., b. January 20, 1813, m. Eli II. Cusbman. 

IV Consider, Jr., b. January 2-5, 1815. m. Sally 0. Greely. 

V Betsey, b. August 19, 1820, m. Jonathan Fickett, Jr. 

VI Abigail, m. Stephen" Davis. 

VII Lovicy, b. , m. Stephen Davis. 

VIII Lydia Jane, m. Joseph H. Briggs, son of Luther. 



Lewis and Harvey Fuller, sons of Caleb, of Paris, who 
married Hannah Perkins, sister of Cornelius, came into town 
and settled in the Perkins neighborhood. Lewis died there. 

Lewis Fuller, married November 25, 1822, Betsey Dunham, 
daughter of widow Lydia, and his children were : Elizabeth, 
b. September 21, 1822, ni. Oliver L. Pratt, of Paris, son of 
Calvin ; Lewis, Jr., b. October 22, 1825 ; George G., b. March 
2, 1828, m. Lovina F. Chandler; Caleb, b. August 16, 1830, m. 
first, Martha A. Curtis, daughter of Daniel ; second. Marietta 
Curtis, daughter of William, of Paris ; Cornelius P., b. Xovember 
24, 1832 ; Angeline R., b. April 1, 1834, m. first, Eobert 0. 
Hayes, of Greenwood, second, Jacob Annas, of Bethel, son of 
Benjamin; Mary P., b. March 22, 1837, m. 'James H. Barrows; 
Nathaniel, b. July 30, 1838, d. July 30, 1864 ; Oliver L., b. 
April 2, 1842, m. Jeannette Foss, of Paris. 

Harvey Fuller lived on the farm now owned by Mrs. Ben- 
jamin Kimball, and on a farm near Andrews' Mills. His first wife 
was Temperance, daughter of Azariah Howard, his second, Sally 
Eoberts, of Waterford, and third, Hannah Holmes, of Newry. 
His children, all by the first wife, were : Tempe, m. John W. 
Dunham ; Charlotte, m. Bcnj. D. Thurlow ; Pauline, m. Joseph 
B. Ptice, of Waterford ; Lysander, m. Phebe Brooks, of Grafton ; 
Almira P., m. Henry Whitman, son of Jacob, Jr. ; Martha, m. 
America Andrews, of Paris; Alpheus, b, 1835^ went west; and 
William H., b. 1839, was a soldier in the late war — died at the 
Eelay House in Maryland. 

Ezra Fuller, probably of Paris, was here in 1832, and Ezra 



222 HISTOEY OF WOODSTOCK. 

P. in 1839. Levi Fuller was taxed a resident here in 1842, 
and Ezekiel in 1845. 

GALLISON. 

John M. Gallison came here in 1847, and settled at North 
Woodstock. He was the son of Joseph and Hannah (Atwood) 
Gallison, and his father spent his last days here in his family. 
His father was born in 1777, and came quite early to Norway. 
He had ten children, namely : Henry, died in cljildhood ; Han- 
nah A., married Cyrus Coy ; Abby W., married Kichard Lom- 
bard.; Sophia, married Jefferson Cushing ; William, married 
Elvira Young ; Joseph H., married Lavina Hammond ; Char- 
lotte L., married Eichard Biizzell ; John M., married Sarah A. 
French ; Edward A., married Belinda Pierce, and Amanda M., 
married George E. Tourtillott. 

John M. was the only one who ever lived in this town ; his 
brother William will be remembered by our older citizens as 
the stage driver between Paris and Eumford. John M. was a 
blacksmith and carriage maker, and has carried on business in 
that Hne much of the time since he came here. He was the 
first Postmaster, and at one time kept the hotel. His children 
were: 

Fannie L., b. November 12, 1838. 

Jefferson C, b. August 8, 1841. 

Abbie E., b. February 3, 1847, m. Samuel B. Frost. 

Joseph H., b. December 1, 1851. 

Hannah S., b. February 5, 1853. 

John A., b. August 9, 1850, m. Mabel M. Eastman. 

GIBSON. 

Samuel Gibson, formerly Sheriff of Oxford County, came 
here from Denmark in 1853, and built a house at the Pond, 
where he lived five or six years, and went to Norway. His wife 
was a Howard, of Brownfield, sister of the late Judge Joseph 
Howard, of Portland. 



HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 223 

George E. Gibson, son of the preceding, came here with him, 
and married ]\Iary E. Randall. He was in trade here, but went 
to Norway with his father. 

GRAY. 

John Gray, jR.,b. April 10, 1791, wife, Susan, b. August 19, 
1793, was here at the time of the incorporation, and lived here 
until his estate was set off to Paris. The only birth in his 
family recorded here is that of Austin A., b. August 29, 1815. 
He married Sarah Dacy, daughter of John, and lived on the 
farm between Abel Bacon's and Kilbon Perham, since occupied 
by Henry Whitman. He had Charles W., who married Augusta 
M. Tribou, of Auburn, and one or two other children. He 
(Austin A.) was divorced from his first wife, married again, and 
was again divorced. He died in July, 1882. 

GREEN. 

« 

EiCHARD Green, said to be of Plymouth County, Mass., born 
March 1, 1782, came here in 1812. He lived near the road 
from Paris to Rumford and near Paris line. His wife, Judith 
Thurlow, daughter of Asa, was born March 1, 1786. Their 
children were : 

I Richard, Jr., b. December 25, 1804. 

II William, b. January 17, 1806. 

Ill Sarah P., b. November 18. 1812, m. Thomas B. Carter. 

IV Asa, b. May 1, 1815. 

V Amos, b. , m. Julia A. Heath. 

VI Albert. 
VII Eunice, b. , m. Thomas Sampson. 

Dr. Edwin Green, from Paris, practiced medicine in this 
town for some years. He married a Kendall, of Milan, N. H. 
Afterwards he left practice, and went to a farm m the south- 
east part of the town. 

HALEY. 

James Haley was here in 1848 ; Wm. E. Haley was a voter 



224 HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK, 

here in 1858. Harriet N. Haley married Albert Perkins; 
Eunice E. Haley married Hiram Andrews ; Tristram Haley, a 
deaf mate, was killed on the railroad near Paris in 1882. The 
Haleys lived in the east part of the town. 

HAMMOND. 

Enoch Hammond, said to have been born in Nova Scotia, 
October 15, 1777, was a sailor on board a coaster before he 
came here. In 1807, he bought of John True his right to lot 
No. 21, in the east part of Woodstock (Dummer Academy 
Grant), and moved there. His wife, born August 30, 1789, 
was Polly, the daughter of John Nason, who came here from 
Paris. The children of Enoch Hammond were : Sena, b. Jan- 
uary 25, 1803 ; Jason, b. September 17, 1804, m, Burry 
Churchill, and always lived in the Dunham neighborhood in this 
town ; Achsa, b. December 5, 1806, m. 1830, Samuel W. 
Benson; Martha, b. December 19, 1808; Enoch, Jr., b. March 
28, 1811, d. young; Mary, b. January 23, 1814, m. James C. 
Noyes. 

hannaford. 

David P. Hannaford, born in New Gloucester, his wife, a 
Monk, was here in 1844, and kept the hoteh built by John Bick- 
nell at South Woodstock. He had previously been a clock 
peddler, and was quite well known through this county. He 
had two sons and two daughters. He was in Woodstock only 
a short time. 

HEATH. 

Joshua Heath lived and died in the east part of the town. 
He married a Bobbins, sister of Oliver, second, and had Julia 
A., married Amos Green, Thomas J., Columbia and Isaac. 
Joshua Heath probably came here from Sumner. 



HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 225 

HOBBS. 

Edmund M. Hobbs, son of Eben, of Norway, his mother a 
March, came here from Norway, and was in the hotel and stage 
business with Joseph Tuttle. .In 1865, he sold out and went 
to Providence, E. I. He married Abbie Farnum, daughter of 
James H. of this town ; they had no children. 

Joseph N. Hobbs, brother of the preceding, a jeweler by 
trade, came here in 1860 and boarded at the hotel. He was 
unmarried, and died here a year or two after. 



HOPKINS. 

Peter Hopkins, a Baptist minister, came into Sigotch about 
1865, and lived on a farm. His daughter Sarah was the wife 
of Delphinus P. Bowker, who traded at the Pond. Albert W. 
married Emma xildrich ; Horace L. married Mary A. Hemming- 
way. Mr. Hopkins had other children. 



HOUGHTON. 

Samuel H. Houghton, born July 20, 1809, son of Moses of 
Harvard, Mass., and Norway, married Betsey G. Tuell, of 
Paris, born April 28, 1810, daughter of Ebenezer and grand- 
daughter of John, and came to this town about the year 1840. 
He lived at the foot of Bryant's Pond, where he built a large 
establishment intended as a hotel. But the County road was 
not located so as to favor the enterprise, and he moved back to 
Paris. He subsequently traded for several years at Locke's 
Mills, and afterwards moved to Worcester, Mass., and died there. 
His children, only the two oldest of whom ever lived in Wood- 
stock, were: Orlando C, b. May 31, 1831, m. Abiah T. Hobbs, 
daughter of Alvah, of Greenwood; Horatio F., b. April 14, 
15 



226 HISTOEY OF WOODSTOCK. 

1832, m. Mary E. Lamplier (widow), daughter of Eli Howe, of 
Hanover; Eosalia B., b. November 24, 1833, m. Charles H. 
Dwinell, of Mechanic Falls ; Anstis S., b. Aug. 5, 1845, m. Han- 
nibal H. Houghton, her cousin, son of Eichard; Diana, b. 
September 6, 1837, m. Osgood Plummer, of Worcester; Samuel 
D, b. 1839, d. 1841 ; Samuel Dana, b. November 26, 1842, m. 
Emma Kelley, of Worcester ; Ella J., b. August 31, 1846, was 
accidently shot, and died April 14, 1852 ; Samuel H. Houghton 
died December 14, 1868, and his wife survives him, residing in 
Worcester. Orlando 0. and Horatio F., were in trade at the 
Pond several years and the former served in the Legislature. 

Moses Houghton, brother of the preceding, was in Wood- 
stock in 1840, and was married here, December 16th of that 
year, to Lucy A. Swift; of Sumner. He was born October 16, 
1820, and his wife April 19, 1819. He was a carpenter and a 
superior workman. He built the Universalist Church at the 
Pond. He lived many years at Locke's Mills, and was at one 
time owner of the mills there. He moved to Norway and died 
there. His children were : Charles K., b. October 17, 1841, m. 
Mary Helen Bolster; he is a stove, hardware and tinware 
dealer at the Pond ; Mary E., b. January 23, 1844, m. Geo. W. 
Bryant; Moses Henry, b. March 17, 1846, m. Aggie Abbott; is 
a Universalist preacher at New Haven, Conn. ; Hannibal H., b. 
February 16, 1848, m. Laura Willis ; Etta Jane, b. January 17, 
1854, m. Geo. Brooks ; Fred. M., b. October 20, 1855, graduated 
at Tufts College and Divinity School, and is a Universalist 
preacher at Middletown, Conn. ; Emma L., b. May 28, 1858 ; 
Nina H., b. September 14, 1861. 



IRISH. 

Aaron M. Irish, son of Joseph and Miriam (Marshall) Irish, 
born in Hebron, September 29, 1820, was married at Wells, 
Me., November 8, 1844, to Hannah A. Penney, born in Wells, 



HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 227 

September 17, 1824. He came to Woodstock in 1846 and 
bought the Churchill farm, where he has since lived. His 
children were: Joseph, b. in Wells, October 8, 1845, died 
young; Juliette, b. in Woodstock, August 22, 1845, m. Joseph 
H. Davis, November 24, 1864, resides in Woodstock ; Georgie 
A., b. November 2, 1850, m. November 26, 1868, Wm. S. Davis, 
lives in Woodstock ; Hannah A., b. May 12, 1856, m. July, 
1876, Edwin E. Perham, son of Kilbon, resides in Soraerville, 
Mass. ; Miriam M., b. September 15, 1860 ; Kuth M., b. October 
8, 1862 ; Almon M., b. April 2, 1867. 

Ebenezer Irish was a voter here in 1851. If he had a 
family, it is not recorded here. 

Mary Irish, sister of Aaron M., was married to Nathan L. 
Marshall, of this town, in March, 1844. 



JACKMAN. 

Alfred Jackman was here in 1847. He lived on the Harvey 
Fuller farm, now occupied by Benj. Kimball, and afterwards on 
the hill east of Joseph Davis. He had a large family, but none 
of them are recorded here. 



JACKSON. 

Dea. Calvin Jackson, son of Levi and grandson of Lemuel, 
of Paris, lived some years and died here. His farm was east of 
the Geo. W. Cushman lot. His first wife was Sally Whitten, 
and her two children were Emeline, married Seranus Shaw, of 
Paris, and Calvin A., for many years our well known house 
carpenter, who married Achsa McKenney. For second wife 
Dea. Jackson married a Matthews, and had four children ; for 
third, he married Judith, daughter of Thomas Farrar, and had : 
Deering F., b. December 20, 1826, m. Eebecca Billings and 



228 HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 

went west; Abigail, b. August 2, 1828; Cordelia, b. March 1, 
1830; Freeman, b. March 7, 1832; Alonzo, b, January 25, 
1834 ; Lydia, b. July 1, 1836, and Sarah J, b. July 12, 1838. 



Benjamin Jackson, son of Lemuel, came here from Paris and 
lived on the farm east of Elon G. Whitman. He had several 
sons and daughters. Caroline C, m. John Cummings, Mahala, 
m. Elijah Day. His son William married Lucinda Coffin, of 
Greenwood ; he also had a son Charles. 

Geokge Jackson was a voter here in 1822, and Levi in 1840. 
Ezekiel C. Jackson, afterwards of Norway, was a] tax-payer here 
in 1846. Probably all these Jacksons descended from Lemuel, 
who came from Middleboro, Mass., to Paris. 

JACOBS. 

Nathaniel F. Jacobs, son of James and Annie (Morrill) 
Jacobs, born in Phillips, Me., January 12, 1838, married at 
Auburn, November 26, 1850, Eliza A. Bryant. In 1853, he 
moved to the Pond and built the house above the school house, 
now owned by Alanson M. Whitman. He was a stone mason 
and worked many years on the quarry below the village. He 
was an enterprising and useful citizen, but much out of health 
in his latter years, and died in middle life. He was postmaster 
from 1865 to the time of his death, in 1875, and his widow 
succeeds him. His cliildren were : Areanna S., b. November 
26, 1851, married Fred Soule and lives in Freeport; Charles A., 
b. January 31, 1855, died young; Delia M., b. November 2, 
1862, m. Eugene Cole and died soon after ; Lizzie F., b. May 9, 
1864; Eobert E., b. September 14, 1869. 

Charles V. Jacobs, brother of the preceding, was here sev- 
eral years and worked on the quarry. He married Emeline W. 
Blake, of Paris, and had several children, but none of them are 
recorded here, and he left town many years ago. 



HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 229 

Daniel M. Jacobs, brother of the preceding, was first taxed 
here in 1858. He kept, for several years, the confectionery store 
on the corner where Ansel Dudley now trades. His wife was 
Allura Sanborn, of Etna, Maine, and they have had no children. 
Mr. Jacobs has for several years kept the leading public house 
at Damariscotta. 



JEWELL. 

Ezra Jewell, a native of Waterford, came here in 1851, and 
was the first trader at Bryant's Pond. He afterwards was in 
trade at Pinhook. His first wife was a Sawyer, of Portland, 
and he had one son, William Frederick, who was here with him 
and enlisted twice during the war, and after it was over went 
to Canada. Mr. Jewell married for second wife, the former 
wife of Henry Kimball, son of Porter, and moved to Andover, 
where he was accidentally drowned by the upsetting of a boat. 

Jonathan Jewell, brother of the preceding, came here from 
Bangor and traded at the east end of Bryant's Pond Village, 
dealing largely in flour and corn. He went from here to Gorham, 
N. H. He had sons, William and Levi, by his first wife, and by 
the second, Charles, Frances, Fred and Thomas. Levi served 
through the war. 



JORDAN. 

Henry Jordan, Jr., came here from Bethel, 1861. He 
married Louisa • York, daughter of David, of this town. He 
enlisted in the army and died while in the service, leaving two 
daughters. His widow subsequently married J. E. Barrows, of 
Stowe, Mass., afterwards of Sumner. He was killed by an 
accident, and she married a Martin, of Eumford. 



230 HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 



KIMBALL. 



Porter and Peter Kimball, Jr., twins and sons of Peter,* of 
Bradford Mass., and Bridgton, Me,, came into this section quite 
early. Porter began on a lot in Bethel, which he subsequently 
sold to Abijah Lapham and moved to Eumford. Peter, born in 
Bradford, May 19, 1793, began on a lot adjoining his brother's, on 
the south, which was lot number one of the Gore. It is said 
thai he began on this lot in 1815. He married March 16, 1816, 
Betsey Emerson, daughter of James f and Eunice (Berry) 
Emerson, born April 3, 1796. 

Peter Kimball was by trade a carpenter, and a very indus- 
trious and useful man. He was also a wheelwright, at first 
manufacturing cart wheels, and subsequently building a shop, 
where he carried on the manufacture of carriages and sleighs 
for many years. His boys, several of whom became famous 
carriage manufacturers, got their rudimentary instructions iu 
the art in this little shop, which stood under the west side of 
the Whale's Back, nearly opposite the Bailey place. Mr. 
Kimball moved from here to Norway, where he died May 14, 
1871. His wife died in Eochester, N. H., June 6, 1879. Their 
children, all except the third, born on the Gore (she in Bridgton) 
were as follows : 

I James Myrick, b. March 10, 1817, m. August 29, 1839, Arvilla, 

daughter of Cotton Elliot, of Rumford. He has carried on the 

carriage business in Bridgton and Portland. 

II Eliza Ann, b. December 9, 1818, m. April 5, 1842, Richard Gage, son 

of Richard and Martha Wheelock. She is the mother of H. W. 



* Peter Kimball, son of Francis, of Bradford, Mass., his mother, Mary- 
Head, was born in Bradford, in 1768. He married Lucy Barker, daughter of 
Asa, of Haverhill, whose wife was Mehitable Porter, and in 1796, moved to 
Bridgton, Me., where his wife's father had already preceded him. Here he 
spent the remainder of his days. 

t James Emerson was the son of William Emerson, and of his wife Eliza 
Myrick ; his wife, Eunice Berry, was the daughter of Stephen Berry, whose 
wife was Ann Bixby. 




HON. CHARLES P. KIMBALL. 



HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 231 

Gage, of Strout & Gage, attorneys at law in Portland, and resides 
with her son. 

III Mary, b. November 20, 1820, m. December 31, 1837, Col. John G. 

Burns, of Oxford, subsequently of the Gore. 

IV Julia Emerson, b. June 6, 1823, m. September, 1844, Martin L. Burr, 

now of Rochester, N. H. 
V Charles Porter, b. August 6, 1825. 
VI George Franklin, b. July 25, 1827, m. August 5, 1851, Lucretia J. 

Morton, of South Paris; he resides in Boston. 
VII John Calvin, b. May 14, 1830, m. April 18, 1854, Ellen T. Cushman, 

daughter of Joseph, of New Gloucester ; resides in Atlanta, Ga. 
VIII Hannibal Ingalls, b. May 16, 1832, m. August 30, 1853, Rosalia D. 
Brown, daughter of Titus O., of Norway. He cartried on an exten- 
sive carriage business in connection with others of the family, in 
New Haven, Conn. Since then, he has been largely engaged in 
business in the South, his residence being Atlanta. He was Di- 
rector General of the Great International Cotton Exposition, held 
in that city, in 1881, and it was mainly through his efforts that it 
was so great a success. 
IX Eunice Berry, b. June 9, 1835, m. June G, 185G, Geo. H. Story, of 

New Haven, Conn. Resides in New Haven. 
X Edwin Nelson, b. February 28, 1840, m. September 25, 1867, Emily 
Cook, daughter of George, of New Haven. He resides in Boston. 

Jonathan Kimball, brother of Peter, came to the Gore and 
lived and died there. He married Satina Besse, daughter of 
Caleb, of Bethel. His children were Stephen D., married a 
Young and lives in Paris, Eben D., and one or more daughters. 
Eben D. died in the army. 

Francis, another brother, came to the Gore and learned the 
trade of his brother Peter. ■ He returned to Bridgton and sub- 
sequently committed suicide. 



Seth, Kimball, of another family, came from Milan, K H., 
and settled on the Harvey Fuller farm, in the Perkins district. 
His son Benjamin lived with him, and one of his daughters, 
Catherine, was the second wife of Columbus Perham. He had 
other children married and residing in Milan. 



232 HISTOKY OF WOODSTOCK. 

KINSLEY. 

Wellcome Kinsley married Lucy A. Hathaway, daughter 
of Lazarus, of Paris, in 1838. He traded at Stephens' Mills, 
succeeding Eleazer C. Shaw. He moved a couple of miles to a 
farm in Greenwood, where his wife died, when he sold out to 
his son and went to Hebron. His children were : George and 
Anna, both of whom live on their father's old place in Green- 
wood and are unmarried. 



KNAPP. 

Albion K. Knapp moved here from Hanover and was in 
trade with his son in the Jewell store a short time, and then 
returned to Hanover. His son, Nathan C, married a Hutchins, 
daughter of Hezekiah, of Eumford, and his only daughter mar- 
ried Winfield S. Howe and lives in Hanover. Nathan C. Knapp 
died very suddenly of diphtheria, several years ago. 



knight. 

Enoch Knight was one of the five sons of Daniel Knight, 
of Falmouth, and an early settler in Norway. Enoch married 
the widow of Kowse Bisbee in 1853, and lived at Pinhook until 
the time of his death in 1861. His first wife was Lydia Eipley, 
of Paris. He had ten children, only one of whom ever lived in 
this town, namely, Thaddeus R, who was born in Norway, 
April 8, 1818, and married Hannah French, of Norway, daughter 
of John S., born June 4, 1820. He came to Woodstock in 
1852, and lived in various places, the last of which was the 
French house at Pinhook. They had three children, all of 
whom died in February, 1861, of diphtheria. They were Lizzie 
A., b. March 9, 1853 ; Nellie J., b. December 10, 1855 ; Abbie 
D., b. February 25, 1857. 



HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 233 

Isaac F. Knight, son of Isaac, of Paris, whose wife was 
Betsey Twitchell, was here in 1839, and lived at Pinhook. His 
wife was a daughter of Moses Cummings, and he had the follow- 
ing children: Daniel, b. January 9, 1836 ; Sarah J., b. Febru- 
ary 6, 1837 ; Chas. H., b. February 6, 1839 ; Azubah, b. August 
23, 1840 ; Ann M., b. April 11, 1842 ; Adelbert, b. September 
4, 1843 ; and Wesley C, b. February 23, 1845. He afterwards 
lived in Greenwood and Lewiston, and finally went west. 



JosiAH J. Knight, whose wife was Sally Eyerson, daughter 
of Luke, of Paris, and whose father was Isaac, of Poland, who 
married a Jordan, daughter of Josiah, came here from Paris 
about the year 1839, and bought the mill in Sigotch. He was 
an active man, and carried on this mill, besides doing much 
farming, for twenty or more years, when he moved to Eumford. 
He had three sons, Charles P., who traded here several years, 
married Juliette, daughter of Hon. Jas. H. Farnum, afterwards 
moved to Bethel ; Augustus J., who married Philadelphia Gra- 
ham and moved to the General Bolster Farm in Eumford ; and 
Marcius, who lived with his father. 



Edwin E. Knight, from Dixfield, was here several years. 
He was a tin and sheet iron worker, and kept hardware and 
stoves. He returned to Dixfield and died of consumption. 



LANDERS. 

Seneca Landers, born in Minot, came here in 1818. He 
lived at first on the old County road, on Gore B, in the Charles 
Curtis house, and for many years lived on Billings' Hill. His 
wife was Polly, daughter of Gilbert Shaw, of Paris, and died in 
1869. Mr. Landers was for many years Deacon of the Baptist 
Church here. He had Hannah, Silence, Gilbert S., Edmund E., 
m. Celia Ann Eowe, daughter of Joseph, Jane C, m. Ephraim H. 



234 HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 

Brown, of Norway, Mary, and another, Cynthia S., m. Oliver F. 
Berry and moved to New York. When quite old, Mr. Landers 
moved to Paris and died there. 



LAPHAM. 

Abijah Lapham, with his son James, lived on the Gore in 
1827. He was born in Scituate, Mass., August 15, 1769, and 
in 1793, with his family consisting of wife Sarah (Hartwell), 
his father John, and his mother Bathsheba (Eames), he came 
to Buckfield. Here he lived till 1823, when he moved to 
Bethel, thence to the Gore, afterwards to Bethel again, where he 
died March 1, 1847. He was the fifth in descent from Thomas 
Lapham, who married Mary, daughter of Elder Nathaniel 
Tilden, at Scituate, March 13, 1637. Abijah Lapham's first 
wife died soon after he came to Buckfield, and he married 
Abigail, daughter of John Buck. For third wife, he married 
widow Sarah Davy, who was a widow Maxim. His children by 
first marriage were : 

I Betsey, b. July 17, 1792, d. unmarried in Buckfield. 

II Sylvia, b. December 8, 1794, m. John Mayhew, of Buckfield. 

III John, b. February 28, 1797, d. April 23, 1800. 

IV Nathan, b. June 17, 1799, d. September 21, 1801. 
V Abijah, b. March 7, 1801, d. an infant. 

Children of the second marriage, all born in Buckfield : 

VI John, b. May 6, 1803, m. first, Louvisa Berry, December, 1824 ; sec- 
ond, Kebecca Phinney, 1872. 
VII Thomas, b. May 6, 1803, m. Sophronia Crooker, 1824. 
VIII Sally, b. November 13, 1804, m. Charles Crooker, 1825. 
IX Cinderella, b. August 8, 1806, m. first, Solomon Cummings ; second, 

Joseph Cummings. 
X Phebe, b. March 31, 1809, never married. 
XI James, b. February 8, 1811, m. Sally Moody. 

Children of the third marriage : 

XII Abijah, b. September 9, 1826, d. October 25, 1880. 



HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 235 

John Lapham moved into Woodstock, to the Briggs place, 
near Greenwood line, about the year 1851, and lived there and 
at the place east of it some twenty years. He then moved to 
Weld, his first wife having died. Children : 

1 Lusanna A., b. February 4, 1826, m. Jonas W. Bartlett, of Bethel, 
and had Louvisa E., b. July 18, 1851 ; William B., b. June 11, 
1853; Lucetta A., b. October 18, 1855; Gardiner W., b. April 17, 
1857 ; Elias R., b. February 15, 1860 ; Aurelia Abbie, b. December 
18, 1864. She d. February 2, 1869. 
II James M., b. ^lay 19, 1827; unmarried. 

III William B., b. August 21, 1828, m. November 27, 1866, Cynthia A., 

daughter of Joel Perham, of Woodstock, and has Mary Cynthia, 
b. March 7, 1868 ; Ben William, b. December 10, 1869, and Fanny 
Beulah, b. in Augusta November 25, 1875. 

IV Betsey J., b. September 12, 1830, m. Alonzo B. Swan, of Woodstock, 

and has Rhoda J., Edith V., Lillian A., Alonzo F., Frank, Florence 
and James M., and oihers who died young. 
V Isaac F., b. March 31, 1832, m. August 13, 1854, Eliza R., daughter 
of Rev. David Ricker, of Woodstock, and has Ida, b. April 10, 
1855, d. December 24, 1855 ; Louis Adelaide, b. October 30, 1856 ; 
Ernest M., b. September 4, 1867. 
VI Aurelia, b. December 17, 1834, unmarried. 
VII Eli F., b. May 24, 1840, d. August 4, 1841. 
VIII John B., b. April 27, 1842, drowned September 20, 1844. 
IX John E., b. March 1, 1846, m. Martha Tenney, of Grafton, Me., and 

has Carrie, b. January 15, 1869, and Arthur P., b. April 11, 1871. 
X Frank W., b. May 29, 1849, m. Jennie H. Deane, of West Gardiner. 
XI Martha A., b. May 15, 1851, m. Dennis Swan. 

The only other of Abijah Lapham's sons who ever lived in 
Woodstock, was James. He lived on the Gore for a year or 
two, and then moved to Greenwood and Bethel. He has, since 
the death of his first wife, married Lucy Churchill, widow of 
Levi, and daughter of Gideon Swan, and moved to her place in 
the south part of Woodstock. Children : James 0., b. Septem- 
ber 25, 1831, m. Mary Turner, and died some years since at 
West Medway, Mass., leaving children ; Abijah, b. March 25, 
1833, d. young; Hezekiah M., b. March 3, 1834, m. Harriet 
Chase ; Amos E., b. August 8, 1836. He was a wagoner in the 
5th Maine Eegiment, and died from injuries received in the line 



236 HISTOEY OF WOODSTOCK. 

of duty; Charles, b. April 20, 1838, m. Katie Haynes; Joseph 
J., b. January 20, 1840, m. a Gates, of Berlin, N. H. ; Harriet 
K., b. February 3, 1842, m. first, Marriner Davis, second, Charles 
Barker ; Dorcas M., b. December 8, 1843, m. Marquis F. Eich- 
ardson ; Thomas E., b. September 30, 1845, d. December 19, 
1865 ; William, b. August 18, 1850, d. young; Levi K, b. June 
21, 1853, m. Jennie Swan, 1873. • 



LEONARD. 

Solomon Leonard, son of Micah, of Middleborough, Mass., 
and Theodora Dean, his wife, was born there September 5, 1793. 
He learned his trade, that of an iron founder, of Caleb Lapham, 
of Pembroke, and came to Maine in 1821. His wife was Esther 
French, of Norway. In 1828, he came to Woodstock and put 
up a foundry at Pinhook. At that time Eowse Bisbee was the 
only resident there. His peddlers, carrying andirons, sadirons, 
pots, kettles, the products of his foundry, traveled all over the 
county, and the name of Solomon Leonard Was known in every 
household. He made good, honest ware. He afterwards moved 
to Waterford and carried on the business there, but losing his 
wife in 1865, he returned to Woodstock. He put up a small 
furnace near Bryant's Pond, where he made a few small castings 
to pass away the time. He was a great reader and an original 
thinker, and much given to theological discussion. He early 
embraced the views of Miller, the Adventist, and warmly cher- 
ished those views ever after. His children were : Theodore, b. 
July 21, 1822, died February 20, 1823 ; Marcia, b. December 
12, 1823, m. Joseph Whitman, Jr., of Woodstock; she died very 
suddenly at Bryant's Pond in 1880 ; George, b. August 7, 1827, 
died young; George F., b. in Woodstock, May 4, 1832; Mary 
J., b. July 9, 1837 ; she married a Cole and lived in Waterford. 




George F. Leonard, M. a. 



HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 237 

LIRBY. 

Elijah Libby, son of Joel and Mehitable (Nash), b. August 
20, 1794, was here in 1823, and lived near Pinhook. He was 
by trade a carpenter. He married Lydia, daughter of Isaac 
Howe, of Greenwood, and subsequently moved to that town. 
He had a large family, but none of their births are recorded here. 

David N. Libby, son of the preceding, b. November 15, 1825, 
appears to have been a voter here in 1852, though he did not 
remain here long. He married a daughter of Joseph ]\loody. 
He died previous to 1856, and is buried in the cemetery at the 
Pond. 

Danville J. Libby, brother of the preceding, b. September 
6, 1826, learned the carpenter's trade of Elijah Swan, of Paris. 
He married Esther C. Bowker, daughter of Edmund, and his 
name first appears on our records in 1853. He first occupied 
part of the Bowker homestead and afterwards bought the Joseph 
Whitman farm, where he still resides. He worked some years 
at his trade, and some of the best buildings at Bryant's Pond 
were erected by him. Latterly, he has given his attention solely 
to farming, in which he has been very successful. He has two 
surviving children, a son, Herbert J., b. April 3, 1856, who is 
unmarried and resides with him, and a daughter, Mary L., b. 
April 12, 1860, who is married and resides in Abbott, Me. Mr. 
Libby is one of our most substantial farmers and citizens. 
Mrs. Libby died July 28, 1882. 



Alexander Libby, born in Buxton, October 21, 1795, was 
taxed here in 1849. He lived at the lower part of the town, 
and kept the hotel there. He died here March 1, 1851. His 
wife was Nancy Loring, of Gorham, and he had several sons 
and daughters here. They were not much identified with this 
town. 

Hiram L. Libby, son of Elliot, of Gorham, born November 
27, 1834, a carriage smith, came here from Portland and was 



238 HISTOKY OF WOODSTOCK. 

in the carriage business with Joseph Whitman. His wife was 
Margaret A. Kimball, of Waterford, and he had one daughter, 
Minnie. He returned to Portland, and came thence to Norway. 



LOTHKOP. 

Edward Lothrop lived for a few years on lot number 59 in 
the west part, the same afterwards owned by Stephen Packard. 
He married Eebecca, daughter of Jacob Whitman, of Buckfield, 
and came here from that town. He was born January 16, 1790, 
and his wife March 31, 1791. He returned to Buckfield after 
a few years' residence here. His children recorded on our records 
are, Jane, b. December 9, 1810, and Edward W., b. October 20, 
1813. . 

LUNT. 

John Lunt, born in Scarborough, came to the east part of 
the town from Windham in 1813. Wm. Cotton, Jr., married 
Tryphenia Lunt, his daughter ; John Lunt, Jr., married Irene 
Dunham in 1835 ; Alex. E. Lunt married Francis A. Thurlow, 
of Poland, in 1858 ; Sally Lunt married David Hasey in 1823 ; 
Rhoda Lunt married Edward Noyes, of Paris, in 1828, Hannah 
Lunt married Samuel W. Jackson in 1840 ; Clara L. Lunt married 
Wm. B. Hasey in 1861. 

The wife of John Lunt, Senior, was Lydia Eand, of Scar- 
borough, sister of Lazarus Eand, named elsewhere. 



LURVEY. 

Job Lurvey, son of David, of Gloucester, Mass., and Lydia 
(Holland) his wife, losing his mother when he was an infant, 
and his father being soon after lost at sea, was taken in charge 



HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 239 

by his uncle-in-law, Daniel Jackson, who joined the Shakers at 
New Gloucester. Job grew up with them until he became of 
age, when he left them, married Betsey Tobey, of New Glou- 
cester, daughter of liichard and Dolly (Haskell), and came to 
Paris ; in 1820, he moved to Woodstock, and became a citizen 
of this town. He moved first to lot No. 5 and then to No. 9. 
His eleven children were born in Paris or New Gloucester. 

. I Lydia, b. January 22, 1799, m. Eliphalet Davis. 
II Richard T., b. August 10, 1800, m. first, Eliza Davis; second, Emma 
Stephens. 

III Matilda, m. Seth Curtis, 2d. 

IV Elvecy, m. John Butterfield. 
V JobH. 

VI Thomas T., m. first, Olive Tuell ; second, Mary H. Curts, of Rumford. 

VII Abigail, m. Jesse H. Stephens. 

VIII Levi T., m. Charlotte Fickett; lived in Paris. . 

IX David, m. Jane F. Bemis. 

X Benj. C, m. Emily Bicknell. 

XI Samuel F. 

Job Lurvey died February 5, 1851, aged 83 years. Up to 
his last sickness he had never known a sick day, and when 
over eighty years of age he could perform as much labor as he 
ever could. 

EiCHARD Tobey Lurvey, son of the preceding, was a much 
respected citizen and much in town office. He also represented 
Woodstock in the Legislature. He spent his later years in 
Paris. His children were: Delania, b. October 28, 1829; 
Samuel S., b. December 12, 1832 ; Emma A., b. September 26, 
1835 ; Eichard L., b. January 30, 1838. 

Thomas T. Lurvey, brother of the preceding, has always 
lived in the south part of this town. He has been very lame 
for many years, the result of an injury received in early man- 
hood. His children, Elvecy, m. Bradford B. Dennen, and 
Thomas T., Jr., m. Matilda Curtis. 

Benjamin Chandler Lurvey, brother of the preceding, who 
married Emily Bicknell, daughter of John, lived in Woodstock 



240 HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 

and died here. His last place was west of tlie Methodist meet- 
ing house, at the lower part of the town. He had children, but 
none appear on our records. 

MARSHALL. 

Nathan L. Marshall, son of Nathan, of Paris, whose wife 
was a daughter of Eleazer and Jane (Bryant) Dunham, also of 
Paris, was for several years a blacksmith at South Woodstock. 
His wife was Mary Irish, and his one child recorded here, is 
Mary Ellen, b. September 7, 1846. Mr. Marshall moved from 
here into Paris. 

MERRILL. 

Samuel Merrill, Jr., was a voter here in 1842. He was 
the son of Samuel Merrill, of Milton Plantation, his mother a 
Godwin. He married Mary A. Dunham, formerly Mary A. 
Swan, daughter of Foxwell, and lived in Milton Plantation. 



John B. Merrill came here from Parsonsfield in 1858, and 
was in trade at the Pond with Joseph Pray. He married in 
1859, Sarah Caldwell, of Greenwood, artd moved to the Bailey 
farm on the Gore. He removed from the State several years 
ago. 



John Merrill was a voter here in 1821, and a town officer, 
but he left no other record. 



MOODY. 



JosiAH Moody, born in Portland, son of Houchin, married 
first, Humility Proctor, and second, Mehitable Houston. He 



HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 241 

lived many years in Danville and subsequently moved to the Gore. 
His place was part of the Bailey homestead. His children 
were : Sophia, married James Jordan, of Lewiston ; Jeremiah, 
married Hannah Peterson, of Brunswick; Hezekiah, married 
Hannah Estes, of Bethel ; Benaiah, married Thankful Briggs, 
of Paris; Eebecca, married Isaac Estes, of Bethel; Josiah, 
married first, Lucy Faunce, of Paris, and second, widow Eebecca 
Martin, of Eumford ; Mary B., married first, Joseph Jordan, 
and second, Enoch Penley, of Danville ; Betsey, married Eufus 
Earrar, of Woodstock, and Sally, married James Lapham, of 
Bethel. 

Josiah Moody, Jr., was the only one of the sons who re- 
mained on the Gore. He had by his first wife Ansel, who 
married Mary Estes, daughter of Stephen, Laura A., married 
Alvah Judkins, Milla and Lucy, who died unmarried. Towards 
the close of his life, Josiah moved mto Bethel and died there. 



AsHBY Moody, son of William, of Danville, whose wife was 
Polly Lapham, came here in 1853, and lived at the Pond. 
He was a carpenter, and was tax collector several years. He 
moved from here to Auburn. He had one son, John, who 
married a Hicks, and lives in Auburn, and a daughter, who 
married Lot Sampson, of Hartford. 

Joseph Moody, brother of the preceding, also a carpenter, 
came here about the same time as his brother and lived at the 
Pond. He had a large family, but none of them remained in 
town. 

Levi Moody, from Eumford, who married Wm. Ackley's 
daughter, was here in 1859, but soon went back to Eumford. 

NUTE. 

Samuel Nute, son of Joel and Eebecca (Wentworth) Nute, 
born in New Hampshire in November, 1792, married first, 1816, 
16 



242 HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 

Betsey Fickett, daughter of Jonathan, of Poland, and came to 
Woodstock about the year 1820. His children were : Harriet, 
b. April 30, 1818, m. Charles Davis, of this town ; Orsamus, b. 
April 14, 1820 ; Phebe W., b. May 9, 1822, m. Asa Smith, of 
Poland, in 1841 ; she died in 1875 and he in 1871. Mary Jane, 
b. October, 1824, m. Eleazer C. Billings, of Woodstock. 

Samuel Nute married for second wife, in 1827, Polly Davis, 
daughter of Aaron. He died January 2, 1855, and his second 
wife in 1873. 

Orsamus Nute, son of the preceding, married first, Emma 
Stevens, born April 13, 1822, daughter of Joseph, of Norway, 
April 13, 1843, and had Samuel A., b. March 24, 1844, d. 
June 17, 1864; Mary E., b. July 22, 1845, m. September 9, 
1875, Willie T. Emery, of Sanford ; Ellen M., b. March 29, 
1849, m. Geo. Leavitt, of Boston ; Euth A., b. October 25, 
1852, d. December 14, 1880 ; Emma F., b. April 27, 1856, d. 
December 6, 1857. 

Mrs. Nute, the mother, died July 2, 1860, and Mr. Nute 
married for second wife, July 2, 1861, Lovina D. Davis, b. 
October 1, 1835, daughter of Joseph, of Woodstock, who had 
Henry 0., b. March 14, 1862 ; Joseph Edson, b. September 3, 
1863 ; Edith E., b. April 8, 1865 ; Ernest, b. September 5, 
1867, d. May 4, 1868 ; Frankie E., b. January 29, 1869, d. 
January 5, 1870 ; Mabel Lovina, b. March 26, 1871. Lovina, 
second wife, died December 27, 1880. 



PACKARD. 

Strphen Packard came here from Buckfield in 1815. He 
bought lot No. 59, west part, of Joseph Cole, and lived there 
until his death. His father was Daniel, of Bridgewater, Mass., 
a soldier in the war for independence, came to Buckfield, and 
late in life to Woodstock, and died here ; his mother, Betsey 
Connery, of Bridgewater. Stephen Packard was born January 




ORSAMUS NUTE. 



HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 243 

21, 1788, and in 1813 he married Eleanor M. Eobinson, of 
Monmouth, who survived him and married Stephen Estes. 
Children : 

I Henry H., b. November 28, 1813, m. Abigail Cole. He was a school 
teacher and often a school officer in town. He died in middle 
life, and his wife survived and re-married. 
II Joseph H., b. April 1, 1815, d. young. 

III Stephen, Jr., b. April 1, 1815, m. Louisa Penley, daughter of Joseph, 

of Paris. He resides in Paris, and is the father of Dr. Packard, 
of West Paris. 

IV Eleanor, b. April 18, 1820, m. Lorenzo Davis, son of Aaron ; she 

died soon after. 
V John R., b. March 24, 1822, d. young. 
VI Frederick R., b. December 17, 1823, d. young. 
VII Sarah H., b. September 25, 1825, m. Aaron Ricker. 
vni Martha, b. June 2, 1827, m. Zebulon R. Wright, of Lewiston. 
IX Joseph H., b. April 11, 1831, d. young. 
X Abbie B., b. November 25, 1833, d. young. 
XI John R., b. November 17, 1834, d. young. 

XII Frederick R., b. November 17, 1834 ; he went to Australia and never 
returned. 

Most of this large family died of consumption. 

. Elijah and John Packard, brothers of Stephen, came into 
Woodstock and felled trees and cleared land, on the place now 
occupied by Elijah Day, but they never moved here. John 
was killed in the war of 1812. Three of Daniel Packard's 
daughters came to Woodstock, namely: Betsey, the wife of 
Charles Crocker, Abigail, wife of Caleb Besse, and Nancy, wife 
of Stephen Estes. 



PEARSON. 

Wm. 0. Pearson, sou of Wm. Pearson and Susan Walker, 
of Yarmouth and Buckfield, grandson of Jonathan, of Portland 
and Yarmouth, born in Buckfield September 24, 1815, married 
in 1839, Wealthy (Benson) Dudley, widow of Moses (see 
Dudley family), and in 1842, moved from Paris to the Gore, 



244 HISTOKY OF WOODSTOCK. 

to the farm previously occupied by Sylvanus Bartlett. His 
wife died March 3, 1859. Their only child was William H., 
born December 23, 1840. For second wife, Mr. Pearson 
married Clementine (Jacobs) Moore. He still resides on the 
Bartlett farm, and has made a success of farming. 

Wm. H. Pearson, ante, was a soldier in the 10th Maine 
Eegiment in the late war. He lives with his father, and married, 
November 3, 1867, Mary Ella Moore, daughter of his step- 
mother. 

PERHAM. 

Lemuel Perham, born in Upton, Mass., December 29, 1760, 
son of Lemuel and Mary Butterfield, grandson of Benjamin and 
Esther, and the fifth in descent from John, of Chelmsford, Mass., 
who married Sarah Shepley in 1664, was early at Paris, occupy- 
ing the " Centre " lot on Paris Hill. His wife was Betsey Gurney, 
of Bridgewater, He subsequently moved to " High Street " in 
Paris, and in 1813 to Woodstock, where one or more of his sous 
had preceded him. Jotham Perham came into town in 1808, 
and began on a farm in what has since been known as the 
" Perham Neighborhood." When his father came here he settled 
on adjoining land. Lemuel Perham was an only son, but his 
father had several daughters, who married and settled in Ver- 
mont, where their descendants now live. The children of 
Lemuel Perham, born in Upton and Paris, were : Patty, b. 
April 6, 1781, m. Ebenezer Tuell, of Paris; Jotham,. b. March 
22, 1784, m. Lucy Felt ; Bettjf G., b. August 28, 1797, d. June 
7, 1798 ; Lemuel, b. November 10, 1788, m. Sally T. Chase ; 
Lovicy, b. February 20, 1794, m. Cyprian Cole, of Greenwood ; 
Joel, b. March 31, 1797, m. Sophronia Bisbee ; Azel, b. July 4, 
1805, m. Elvira Bowker. 

Jotham Perham, son of the preceding, as already stated, 
came into town in 1808 and spent many years here, and was a 
valuable citizen. He was much in town office, and was Captain 



HISTOllY OF WOODSTOCK. 245 

of a militia company that went to Portland during the 1812 
war. His children were : 

I Elvira b. July 6, 1812, m. Alfred Chase; they had no children. 
II Joshua, b. June 9, 1814, m. Polly Whitman, daughter of Joseph. He 
cultivated Woodstock land many years, and vyas one of our 
most industrious citizens. lie finally sold out and moved to 
Wakefield, Mass., where his wife died and he married again. 
He had children : Mary J., married first, Nehemiah Davis, 
second, Winfield S. Ripley, and lives in Wakefield ; Andrew J., 
married Ann King, and lives in Wakefield; Amanda M., un- 
married ; Jerome, killed by the cars at Wakefield, and Jessie, 
who married and lives in Wakefield. 
Ill Columbus, b. May 16, 1816, m. first, Clementine Nutting, daughter 
of James; second, Catherine Kimball, daughter of Seth, and 
third, widow Mary A. Washburn, of Paris. He lived in the east 
part of the town and died there. 
IV Delphina, b. March 20, 1818, m. Harriscm Whitman, who died, leav- 
ing her with three small children, whom she brought up and 
educated. Geo. W., b. February 14, 1839, m. Eliza Davis, 
daughter of Joseph, and lives in Paris ; Angel ia, m. Rufus Farrar, 
Jr., lives in Grafton, and Harrison S. (See Personal Mention.) 
V Lucy A., b. June 13, 1821, m. first, Chauncy C. Whitman, and second, 

a Lombard, of Paris, and resides there. 
VI Sylvania, b. May 7, 1825, unmarried, a dressmaker and dealer in 

millinery and fancy goods, at Bryant's Pond. 
VII Lovicy, b. October 4, 1826, died young. 

VIII Martha E., b. June 29, 1830, m. Stephen C. Davis, son of Benjamin. 
They have always lived in town ; have had several children ; their 
daughter, Corinna, a very promising scholar, died while a student 
at Bates College. 
IX Amanda M., b. December 1, 1832, died young. 

Lemuel Perham, Jr., brother of the preceding, married Sally- 
Chase, daughter of Merrill, and went to- Wapello, Iowa, many 
years ago where he died June 23, 1865, and where his descendants 
now are. He was a Lieutenant in the company that went to Port- 
laud, m 1814. His children were : Sarah T., b. October 27, 1815, 
m. Andrew Grimes; Joel, b. April 15, 1817; Lemuel Poss, b. 
March 19, 1819, m. Mary Nichols ; Lovicy C, b. May 12, 
1823, m. Alexander Moore ; Amanda M., b. March 16, 1826, 
m. J. Harvey ; Nancy, b. April 15, 1828, d. February 29, 1838 ; 



246 HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 

Almira, b. May 12, 1832, d. May 16, 1834 ; Sarah, h. July 30, 
1834, d. July 20, 1836 ; John, b. April 15, 1830, d. April 15, 
1837. 

For second wife, Lemuel Perham married in 1843, Clarissa 
B. Perkins, of Clyde, Michigan, and had William and Laura. 

Joel Perham, brother of the preceding, born in Paris, came 
to Woodstock with his father when he was fifteen years of age. 
When he became of age he was married and lived at first in the 
Perham neighborhood, then built a house below the Stephen 
Packard place, where he lived a few years, and next moved to 
Perham neighborhood, to the farm he bought of Eowse Bisbee, 
and on which John Nason made the first opening. He after- 
wards moved to the south part of the town, to the farm 
previously owned by John Bicknell. In 1856, he sold his farm 
and moved to Bryant's Pond. He was a good farmer and very 
successful in sheep husbandry. At one time he was keeping 
six hundred sheep and wintered them. Near the close of his 
life, he went to live with his son Kilbon and died there. His 
wife died in 1865 and he in 1876. His children were : 

I Sidney, born March 27, 1819, m. Almena J., daughter of Lazarus 
Hathaway, of Paris, and his children are : Aurestus S., m. Delia 
Haskell, of New Gloucester, lives in Washington, D. C. ; Fannie L., 
Georgie S., Herbert M., died young, and Willie L. 

II Betsey Gurney, b. March 13, 1821, m. Merrill J. Rowe. (See Eowe). 

Ill Kilbon, b. August 8, 1822, m. Sarah J. Bryant, daughter of Christopher, 
and had Edwin R., m. Anna Irish, lives in Somerville, Mass. ; Clara, 
m. Henry Rollins, lives west; Sarah B., died young; Mabel L. and 
Quinby. 

IV Joel, b. May 10, 182G. He was brought up on the farm, attended the 
town schools and at Hebron Academy, taught school winters, was 
in trade at Bryant's Pond several years; was a member of the 
Enrolling Board, for the 2d Maine District, during the war; was 
subsequently government inspector ; has dealt lai'gely in real estate 
in Boston and Washington, D. C. ; now resides in Boston ; un- 
married. 
V Viana, b. April 10, 18.32, m. Joseph Churchill, son of William, of Paris. 
He died in August, 1881. They had one son, Walter A. 

vr Cynthia A., b. June 27, 1839, m. Wm. B. Lapham ; resides in Augusta. 



I 




Joel Perham. Jr. 



HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 247 

AzEL Perham, brother of the last, has always lived in Wood- 
stock. His wife was Elvira Bowker, daughter of James, of 
Paris. His children, all born in Woodstock, were : Laura B., b. 
March 31, 1831, d. June 19, 1838 ; Lovicy, b. February 4, 1831, 
m. Adelbert Hicks, son of Isaac, of Greenwood, and went west ; 
Kingman G., b. January 13, 1832, m., and has lived in Naples 
and other places ; Jeanette L., b. June 23, 1836, m. Amos 
S. Bryant, son of Samuel, Jr., of Greenwood ; Alonzo, b. August 
31, 1839, d. April 13, 1845 ; James L., b. October 3, 1842, 
never was married ; he died from the effects of exposure while 
in the army ; Charles H., b. September 3, 1850, married and 
resides with his parents. 



PERKINS. 

Cornelius Perkins, of Carver, Mass., born December 25, 
1775, married Mercy Barrows, of Middleboro, born January 5, 
1775, and was among the early settlers of Paris. In 1803, he 
came to Woodstock and settled on lot number six, of Smith's 
survey, in the east part of Woodstock, the grant to Gorham 
Academy. His father was Gideon, whose wife was Desire 
Dunham, and his grandfather Joshua, all of Carver. He was 
a useful citizen, and in town office for thirty or more years. 
He was the delegate from Woodstock to the convention which 
framed the Constitution of Maine. After the death of his wife 
he went to Paris and died there. His children, the three older 
born in Paris and the others in Woodstock, were : 

I Luther, b. December 10, 1797, m. Sally Durell. He was a Baptist 
clergyman and had several settlemenis. He died in Weld, where 
he had married a second wife, named Brown. His children were 
Ephraim, Samuel, Joshua, Albert, Lois and Austin. 
II Cornelius, b. November i, 1799,-d. young. 

Ill Gideon, b. November 22, 1801, m. Polly Dunham. He was a Free 
Baptist minister ; he had a family, and among his sons were John 
W. and Joseph, well known merchants in Lewiston. 



248 HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 

IV Seth, b. September 2, 1803, m. Laodicea Dudley, daughter of David, 

and moved to Penobscot County. 
V Mercy, b. August 8, 1805, m. Isaac Davis. 
VI Desire, b. December 28, 1807, m. Harvey Berry, son of William, of 

Paris. 
VII Daniel, b. April 23, 1810, m. Drusilla Fuller, daughter of Caleb, of 

Paris. He has always lived in town. 
VIII Cyrus, b. January 14, 1812, m. Harriet Dunham; he died at Paris, 
1880. 
IX Charles, b. January 24, 1814, ra. Amazina Cushman, daughter of 
John, of Bethel. He went west. 
X Cornelius, b. July 19, 1879, d. 1833. 



PERRY. 

Job Perry, of Norway, died in Belfast in October, 1830. 
His wife, Eleanor Allen, of Hartford, survived him and came 
to this town with her family, and died here April 3, 1871. 
Tiieir children were: Bartle, b. in Paris Feb. 2, 1819, was a 
voter here in 1843 ; Judith T., b. September 15, 1820, m. Oliver 
Eobbins ; Nathaniel H., b. June 3, 1822, died quite young in 
Belfast ; Job T., b. in Belfast June 15, 1825, m. Catherine A. 
Bigelow, of Framingham, Mass. ; Franklin W., b. May 14, 
1829, m. Miranda Buck, of Norway ; Francis W., b. May 14, 
1829, m. Miriam Barrows, of Norway ; Nathan H., b, Septem- 
ber 30, 1830, m. Estella Eobbins. 

The two brothers, Bartle and Nathan H., long operated the 
saw mill in Sigotch, purchasing the property of Josiah J. 
Knight ; Bartle married first, in 1866, Lucretia Barker, of Eum- 
ford, second, in 1875, Mrs. Sophronia Carter, of Eumford, and 
third, in 1877, Mrs. Mary A. Silver, of Eumford ; he resides in 
Eumford. Nathan H. married as stated above, and resides at 
West Paris. He is much interested in mineralogy, and has a 
large collection found in and around Woodstock ; he has also 
supplied other collectors with the rare minerals of this region. 
He is now devoting his time mainly to this pursuit. 



HISTOKY OF WOODSTOCK. 249 

PRAY. 

Joseph Pray came here from- Parsonsfield in 1858, and traded 
in the Crockett stand, since burned, at the Pond. He was an 
elderly man and a bachelor; his sister kept his house. He 
was Postmaster from 1859 to 1861 ; he was a kind hearted, 
genial man, and highly respected, but not successful in business 
here. He was partially blind, and often the victim of petty 
peculations and frauds ; he died here in 1866. 



PUTNAM. 

Prentiss M. Putnam, son of Jesse, of Paimford, his wife 
Esther Howe, daughter of Joel, of Hanover, came here in 1858, 
and worked in the store for Jonathan Jewell. He afterwards 
returned to the homestead of his father at East Eumford, and 
died there. He had two children, Marcella, who married and 
resides in Milan, N. H., and one son. 



POOL. 



Melvin Pool, son of Joshua, of Norway, married Abigail 
Bryant, daughter of Solomon, and once lived in this town. He 
was first taxed here in 1827. He moved from here to Green- 
wood. His son Calvin was taxed here in 1837, and Thomas 
in 1839. Besides these, he had William, Joshua, George, 
Francis and Frederick, and perhaps others. He also had sev- 
eral daughters. They all left town many years ago. 



RAND. 



Lazarus Band, born July 29, 1755, died in 1816, was Hving 
in the east part of the town in 1815. His wife, Betsey, was 
born October 9, 1757. Their children recorded on our records. 



250 HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 

are ; David, b. June 21, 1787, m. Eachel Townsend, he emigrated 
to Ohio ; Eunice, b. May 31, 1702, m. Daniel Cox, of Sumner ; 
Lydia, b. April 24, 1794; William, b. October 24, 1800, m. 
Eebecca Crockett ; Christania, b. May 16, 1802, m. Jacob Hasey. 



RANDALL. 

John and Eufus S. Eandall, both master mariners, were 
here occasionally with their mother, who married Joseph Frye. 
They were the sons of Eobert Eandall, grandsons of Eobert, and 
great-israndsons of Nathaniel, who came from Scituate, Mass., 
and settled in North Yarmouth ; their mother was Lydia 
Mitchell, daughter of Jonathan, of Cape Elizabeth. Both of 
these sons commenced before the mast and worked their way 
up to command large ships. John is now in California, and 
Eufus in Freeport. Eufus married Annie Townsend, of Free- 
port, daughter of Earl and Sarah (Hoy t) Townsend, and has six ' 
children. Mrs. Eandall has spent most of her married life on 
the ocean with her husband, having made voyages with him to 
several countries of Europe, to South America, the West Indies 
and to Hong Kong. Captain Eufus has been an energetic and 
successful shipmaster, and has retired on a competency to the 
quiet town of Freeport, to spend the remainder of h'is days in 
pursuits of agriculture. 

RIGKER. 

David Eicker, son of David and Lydia (Noble), of Somers- 
worth, N. H., born August 18, 1776, married Lydia Chase, 
daughter of Enoch, of Dover, born October 16, 1777, and came 
to Minot, where he was in the employ of Michael Little, and 
thence came here in 1805. He began on the farm where he 
died, and where his son David now lives. His children, all 
except the oldest, born in Woodstock, were : 




Capt. rufus s. Randall. 



HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 251 

I Mary, b. July 11, 1804 ; never married. 

II Eliza, b. August 31, 1805; m. Alexander Day, Jr. 

III Lucy, b. March 7, 1806; never married. 

IV David, b. June 19, 1809 ; m. first, Eunice Estes ; second, Lois Bryant. 
V Thomas N., b. September 26, 181^ ; m. Mary Wood, of Hebron. 

VI Harriet, b. April 11, 1817; m. John Wyman. 

David, son of the preceding, was born in and has always 
resided in Woodstock. His first wife was Eunice A. Estes, and 
the second Lois Bryant. He is a farmer, brick mason and car- 
penter, and has also b6en an occasional preacher in the Baptist 
denomination for many years. He had no children by his first 
wife, but by his second wife he had : 

George W., b. September 23, 1834 ; m. Etta, daughter of Rev. M. Lawrence, 
of Sumner. He was a soldier in the late war, and 'died a few years 
after his discharge, of consumption. 

Eunice, b. September 6, 1835 ; m. Ephraim M. Lawrence ; resides in Wood- 
stock. 

Eliza R., b. June 14, 1837; m. Isaac F. Lapham, and has Lois A., b. Octo- 
ber 30, 1856, m. Edward T. Packard ; and Ernest M., b. September 4, 
1867. All reside in Litchfield. 

Dustin B., b. June 28, 1841 ; m. Elizabeth Lawrence. 

Ruth, b. February 4, 1843 ; unmarried. 

Lois A., b. August 3, 1845; d. March 6, 1846. 

David I., b. September 9, 1850 ; d. September 3, 1854. 

Thomas N., son of David Eicker, Senior, is a blacksmith, and 
resides at Bryant's Pond, but formerly at Rumford. His wife 
was Mary Wood, of Hebron. Children : 

Rozina E., b. August 1, 1841 ; m. Charles A. Young. She died April 11, 1865. 

Augusta M., b. April 26, 1843; unmarried. 

Charles H., b. November 27, 1844 ; d. August 21, 1851. 

Delia A., b. July 23, 1847 ; m. George Davis and resides in Auburn. 

Charles 11., b. December 16, 1852 ; m. and lives in Auburn. 

T. Willard, b. October 9, 1856. 

Arthur C, b. December 21, 1858. 

ROBBINS. 

Several families of Bobbins have lived in this town, but few 
of them are upon the town records, and only a small number 
bearing this name now remain here. 



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252 HISTOEY OF WOODSTOCK. 

Nathaniel Robbins, originally of Plymouth County, Mass., 
came here from Sumner about the year 1835. His wife was 
Euth Robbins, daughter of Eleazer, also of Plymouth County, 
Mass., and Sumner, and he had sous, Charles, Nathaniel, Jr., 
Oliver, Thomas A. and Samuel, and perhaps others. Charles 
Robbins m. Mary A. Cotton, and was living here in 1835 ; 
Oliver, m. in 1829, Ann S. Thurlow, and in 1846, was living 
near the saw mill north of Pinhook. He also had daughters, 
Rebecca, m. Cyrus Andrews, and Lois C, m. Mark F. Cotton, 
and perhaps others. Harriet H. Robbins, daughter of Nathaniel, 
Jr., married Francis E. .Hammond ; Emily R. Robbins married 
Isaac Dunham ; Eliza Robbins married Samuel Hammond. 



Oliver Robbins, son of Eleazer, of Sumner, his wife a Tripp, 
came from Sumner to this town in 1837, and settled on a lot 
between Sigotch and West Sumner, on the County road. He 
had Susannah, died unmarried ; Oliver, Jr., and Elvira, who 
married Lyman R. Durell, adopted son of Antepast. Oliver, 
Jr., was three times married : first, to Calista Knight, of Peru, 
second to Eliza Dunn, of Sumner, and third, to Judith T. Perry, 
of Woodstock. He lives on the old homestead of his father, 
and is an intelligent and thrifty farmer. His daughter Estella 
married Nathan H. Perry, formerly of Woodstock. 

KOWE. 

Benjamin Rowe, born February 8, 1767, in Gloucester, Mass., 
came to New Gloucester and thence to Norway, being one of 
the early settlers in the latter town. He married first, February 
2, 1790, Judith Rowe, of New Gloucester, and had : 
I Judith, b. November 7, 1790. 

His wife died December 17, 1790, and for second wife, he 
married February 20, 1792, Elizabeth Jordan, and had : 

II Simeon, b. November 21, 1792, died March 2, 1864. 
Ill Timothy, b. May 19, 1794, d. July 8, 1800. 



HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 253 

IV Solomon, b. Julj- 29, 179G, m. Hannah Millett. 

V William, b. March 20, 1800. 

VI Willison, b. March 10, 1802. 

VII Joseph, b. February 15, 1805. 

VIII Harriet, b. May 21, 1807. 

Benjamin Eowe died January 13, 1859, and hi.s second wife 
October 17, 1852 ; both died and are buried in Norway. 

Simeon Eowe, eldest son of the preceding, married December 

28, 1818, Eebecca Merrill, born in Andover, Mass, He lived 

in that part of Hebron that is now Oxford, and came to this 

town in 1833, and settled on half of wild lot number 67, in the 

west part. Here he lived twenty-four years, and then moved, 

with his son, to the Bartholomew Cushman farm, where he died 

as above. His wife died July 9, 1860. Children : 

1 Merrill Jordan, b. October 18, 1819, m. December 22, 1824, Betsey G. 
Perham, daughter of Joel, and had Edwin Merrill, b. September 6, 
1844, d. March 7, 1861 ; Ellen E., b. November 26, 1849, d. March 
10, 1861 ; Edwin M., b. May 2, 1858, m. June 1, 1879, Annie C. Burn- 
ham, and has two children. Merrill Rowe now resides in Norway. 
II Judith, b. June 22, 1822, m. Atwood Rowe; no children. 

III Benjamin E., b. August 16, 1824, d. March 13, 1825. 

IV Harriet S., b. November 29, 1827, m. Augustus Billings, son of Jon- 

athan, and has always lived in Woodstock, 
V Infant, b. February 10, 1833, died February 12, 1833. 

William Eowe, brother of the preceding, came to Woodstock 
and settled on the other half of the same lot as his brother. 
His wife was Sarah Merrill, sister of Simeon's wife. They had 
Newell F., m. Sarah A. Bryant, daughter of Abram, of Bethel, 
and had six children, all of whom died of diphtheria in 1861 ; 
Semantha, m. Benj. F. Farrar and died in Woodstock ; Ellery, 
m. Mary A. Hathaway, daughter of Lazarus, of Paris, and has 
resided many 'years in Portland ; Daniel, m. and moved to Saco ; 
Willison, m. Laura A. Billings, daughter of Silas, and moved to 
Oxford. 

Joseph Eowe, brother of the preceding, married Katherine 
Virgin, of Eumford, and has Lived more or less iu this town. 



254 HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 

His children are Celia A., m. Edmund E. Landers, son of Seneca ; 
Henry, m. and lives in Boston ; Mary, m. Wallace Besse and 
died in Buckfield ; Sarah J., m. Benj. D. Thurlo ; and Charles. 

Haeeiet Eowe, sister of preceding, married Enoch French ; 
they lived in this town, on a lot adjoining Simeon Eowe's on 
the east. Subsequently, they lived in Greenwood, Oxford and 
Paris. They had one son, Harrison, who married and lives in 
Bethel. Harriet died in Paris. 

Stephen P. Eowe, distantly related to the families already 
mentioned, son of Joseph and Elizabeth (Whittemore) and grand- 
son of John, who was brother of Benjamin, of Norway, came 
here from Greenwood and built a house at Bryant's Pond. He 
was born July 4, 1815, and married first, Elizabeth P. Mixer, 
of Oxford, and second, Euth B. Stevens, of Norway. His 
children by the first wife, were : Augustus L., b. January 26, 
1841, m. Lucinda Pray, and by second, Lizzie, b^ September 8, 
1849, m. Eli B. Whitman, son of Zeri, of Hebron. 

Isaac A. Eowe, brother of the preceding, also came here from 
Greenwood and repaired up the mill at North Woodstock, which 
he operated until he died. He married Judith Eowe, daughter 
of Simeon, ante, who survived him and became the wife of 
Cyrus Millett. 



EUSS. 



Hoeatio G. Euss, born in New Sharon, Franklin County, 
whose first wife was a Houghton, daughter of Moses, and second 
wife, a Eust, from South Paris, was here in 1843, and carried 
on the clover mill above Pinhook. He was not here long. He 
died in Livermore several years ago. 

James Euss, brother of the preceding, was here in 1843. 
His wife was an Adams, of Boothbay. He was a clothier and 
cloth dresser by trade, but carried on a farm here. He was a 
soldier in the late war, and died from disease contracted in the 



HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. , 255 

service. He had several sons ; Benton, m. Jpfne Cushman, 
daughter of Geo. W. ; Samuel, m. Sibyl J. Felt, daughter of 
Jeremiah ; Henry H., m. Alice J. Cotton. His daughter, Nettie 
r., m. James F. Bragg. 



RUSSELL. 

Moses M. Russell came here from Newry, and lived in 
the Billings neighborhood ; he afterwards moved to Pinhook. 
He had a family, and one of his sons once kept the Bryant's 
Pond House 

SESStPNS. 

Darius Sessions, whose parents lived in Newry and after- 
wards in Milton Plantation, lived a while in this town, and the 
births of three of his children are here recorded, namely : 
Francis C, b. July 13, 1844 ; Asa 0., b. January 1, 1846, and 
Betsey K, b. August 1, 1847. His wife was Eunice Chase, 
daughter of Merrill, Jr. They had other children after leaving 
this town. 



SIIAW, 



Eleazer C. Shaw came here in March, 1830, and suceeded 
John E. Briggs, in the store at Stephens' Mills. He was the 
son of Gilbert and Silence (Cole) Shaw, of Paris, and was born 
May 10, 1807. His wife was Polly Kinsley, daughter of Azel, 
of Minot, born October 26, 1809. He moved from here to 
Paris and thence to Portland. While here, he was Town Clerk 
aaid Postmaster. He moved from here to Paris, in December, 
1837. . His children were : Charles H., b. December 16, 1830, 
and George Pt., b. May 5, 1844. 



256 , HISTOEY OF WOODSTOCK. 

STAEBIED. 

John Staebied was here at the time the town was incorpor- 
ated. In 1825, his farm was set off to Paris. He was born 
October 3, 1767, and his wife, Sally Tobey, September 20, 1772. 
His children were : Hannah, b. November 6, 1796, m. Thayer 
Townsend; Sally, b. September 9, 1798; John, b. August 11, 
1800, m. Betsey Benson, of Sumner; Jemima T., b. February 3, 
1802 ; Louisa, b. September 9, 1803, m. Jacob Brown ; Levi H., 
b. August 20, 1806; Richard T., b. March 31, 1808; Martha 
M., b. May 29, 1810 ; Stephen R, b. May 16, 1812 ; Dorothy, 
b. September 11, 1815, m. John M. Bowker. 



Claeendon Staebied, probably son of John, Jr., came to 
Woodstock and married Eliza, daughter of Eli Bryant, and re- 
mained here some years. He died here several years ago. 



STEPHENS. 

Capt. Samuel Stephens, whose first wife was a Howard, is 
said to have come from Plymouth County, Mass., to Paris. He 
moved from there into Woodstock, and was here at the time of 
taking the first town census in 1815. He bought the mill built 
by Eowse Bisbee, near Abel Bacon's, and owned also the farm on 
which Bacon lives. He was a highly respected citizen, holding 
town office frequently, and serving two terms in the State 
Legislature. His second wife was Emma Swan, daughter of 
William. The children by first wife, were Samuel, married 
Betsey Doten ; he was killed while working in Locke's Mill, in 
Greenwood, and his widow married Capt. Barrett, of Sumner ; 
Eleazer married and lived in Paris ; Desire married Artemas 
Felt. By second wife he had: Jesse, b. December 12, 1802, 
m. Abigail T. Lurvey ; he was a Methodist preacher, and 
became insane and committed suicide, under the influence of 



HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 257 

Miller's doctrine of the Second Advent, in 1843 ; Emma, b. 
December 30, 1804, m. Eichard T. Lurvey ; Benjamin, b. March 
28, 1807, m. Julia M. Davis ; she has daughters Esther and 
Emma, and a son Oren, who is a physician in Oxford ; Oren, b. 
October 6, 1809, died young ; Jane, b. April 29, 1812, m. Joseph 
Davis, and Mary, b. April 9, 1815. 



Ezra Stephens came here from West Paris. His father, 
Benjamin Stephens, whose wife was a Sampson, occupied a farm 
near Trap Corner, in that town. Ezra married an Andrews, of 
North Paris ; he was for a long time an itinerant peddler and 
watch and clock repairer, but when he came to Bryant's Pond, 
he went into general trade. He has several children, the oldest 
of whom, Cora M., is the wife of E. C. Allen, of Norway. 



STEVENS. 

Francis E. Stevens came here from Bethel in 1851, and 
married Charlotte, daughter of Eli Bryant. His father was 
Joseph, of Norway. Francis F. lived on a farm near the old 
Hannaford hotel afterwards occupied as a dwelling by Jacob 
Whitman. He moved to Norway several years ago. 



Benjamin Stevens, son of John and Lucy (Mugford), of 
Bethel, formerly of Gorham, for a year or two kept a livery 
stable at Bryant's Pond. He went back to Bethel. He married 
first, Harriet Swift, of Lewiston, and second, Lydia Ptobertson, 
of Bethel. 

SWAN. 

William Swan, an early settler in Paris, and among the first 
families in Woodstock, was born in Cambridge, Mass., Septem- 
ber 4, 1737. He was the son of John and Elizabeth, his wife, 



258 HISTOKY OF WOODSTOCK. 

grandson of Gersliom and Sarah Holden, and .great-grandson of 
John Swan, who came from England as a servant in the family 
of Mr. Thomas Bittlestone, in whose recorded will it is provided 
that his wife, Elizabeth, shall have the services of his boy, John 
Swan, and shall pay him five pounds. John Swan, the emigrant, 
married Eebecca Palfrey, and had a grant of land in Cambridge, 
of twenty acres. Many of his descendants settled in Woburn, 
and among them was William. He was a soldier in the war 
for independence and a pensioner. He came to Paris with a 
large family, and lived there several years. About the year 1802 
he moved to Woodstock, accompanied by his son William, Jr., 
who was then married, and his grandson Gideon, who was then 
fifteen years old. They settled on the " Thousand Acres, " so 
called, on the west side of the old County road. They built the 
first framed barn in the plantation, which is still standing on the 
old farm sometimes called the Gilbert place. William Swan, 
Senior, bought the improvements made by Luther Briggs, on the 
opposite side of the road, on the place now occupied by Samuel 
S. Swan. The frame house on this place is the oldest in town. 
The children of William Swan and Lucy Eobbins, were : 

I Lydia, b. November 16, 1761, never married. 
II William, b. July 3, 1763, m. Bethiah Pratt. 

m Betsey, m. Calvin Cole, of Paris. 

IV Emma, b. September 2, 1767, m. Samuel Stepheus. 

V Sally, b. August 21, 1774, m. Solomon Bryant, Jr. 

VI Susannah, b. March 24, 1777, m. Christopher Bryant. 

William Swan, Jr., was married October 15, 1790, by Ichabod 
Bonney, Esq., of Turner, to Bethiah Pratt, of Paris. He lived 
to an advanced age, and died in Woodstock, we believe of 
measles. His children, born in Paris and Woodstock, were : 

1 William, Jr., b. May 18, 1792, m. first, Hannah, daughter of Samuel 
B. Locke, of Bethel, and second, widow Twitchell, of Norway, 
whose maiden name was Bird, daughter of John, of Norway. He 
lived in Paris the last years of his life, and died in 1880. He had 
a large family residing in Paris and elsewhere. 

II Oliver, b. January 15, 1797, m. Jlhoda Bryant, daughter of Samuel, 



HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 259 

of Woodstock, and reared a large family. He also moved to Paris, 
and died there many years ago. 

III John, b. June 8, 1799, m. Louisa Briggs, daughter of Luther. He 

moved to Greenwood, where he left children. 

IV Moses, b. December 1, 1801, m. Mary Locke, sister of his brother 

William's wife. He was a car^Denter, and he and his wife went to 
California and both died there. They left two daughters, Lucetta, 
who is married in Chicago, and Mary, who resides in California. 
V Aaron, b. December 1, 1801, d. February 16, 1815. 
VI Lucy, b. May 3, 1804, m. John R. Briggs. 
VI Bethiah, b. May 3, 1804, m. Luther Briggs. 
VII Emma, b. April 6, 1807, d. young. 

VIII Samuel S., b. April 10, 1811, m. Sabra Dacy. He also married a 
second time. 
IX Edmund, b. February 14, 1814, m. Elmira Morgan, of Greenwood. 
He died in Greenwood. 

Gideon Swan, son of Lucy and grandson of William, Senior, 
as stated, came to Woodstock when fifteen years of age, and 
died here, aged about ninety years. He was the last survivor 
of the early settlers. He was a carpenter and farmer. His 
wife was Katie, daughter of Joseph and Susanna (Trull) Clifford 
(see Clifford), and they had six children. A daughter Lucy, m. 
first. Dexter Billings, second, Levi Churchill, and third, James 
Lapham. 

FoxwELL Swan (no connection of the William Swan family) 
came here from Paris and married widow Knight, of North 
Woodstock. He was the son of James, of Bethel, grandson of 
James, who came from Methuen to Fryeburg, and then to 
Bethel, and a descendant of Eichard, who was early at Boston, 
and moved thence to Eowley. Foxwell Swan lived at North 
Paris many years, and raised up a family there. He died at 
North Woodstock, at an advanced age. 

THORN. 

Samuel Thorn came to Sigotch from Phillips. He lived in 
a log house on the shore of Concord Pond, on land now owned 



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260 HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 

by Benjamin Davis. By his first wife he had Hannah, Abbie, 
Louisa, married George S. Webster, Barnet, married Julia F. 
Farrar, of Milton Plantation, and Edmund. For second wife, 
Samuel Thorn married Amy Dolloff, daughter of Abner, and 
had Samuel, Abby, Sarah, Eosannah and William D., who mar- 
ried Violetta D. Wing. Edmund and Samuel both died in the 
army. 

THUKLO. 

Asa Thurlo, or Thurlow, as his descendants write the name, 
born June 3, 1760, with wife Abigail, came early into Wood- 
stock from Buckfield, and settled on the line of the road which 
afterwards led from the David Richer place south-easterly to 
North Paris. His children were : 

I Amos, b. May 3, 1784, m. Sarah Keene. 

II Judith, b. March 1, 1786, m. Richard Green. 

III Mercy, b. December 7, 1793, m. Jeremiah Foster, of Norway. 

IV Bethiah, b. February 10, 1796. 

V Asa, b. August 25, 1798, m. Lucy Billings. 

VI Abigail, b. April 8, 1801, m. Asa Dunham. 

VII John, b. April 16, 1804, m. Charity Bessee. 

VIII Sally, b. April 27, 1807, m. Jason Hammond. 

Amos Thurlo, son of preceding, his wife a Keene, had 
Leonard B., b. March 22, 1815 ; Benjamin D., b. March 30, 1819, 
m. first, Charlotte Fuller, daughter of Harvey, second, Melissa 
J. Young, daughter of Atwood M., and third, Sarah J. Eowe, 
daughter of Joseph ; Arvilla, b. September 24, 1821, m. William 
F. Harvey; Aaron, b. July 28, 1825, m. Betsey Davis, daughter 
of Aaron ; Amos, b. Jannary 8, 1828, m. Sylvina Whitman, 
daughter of Zephaniah B. ; they went west and she died there ; 
Andrew, b. November 4, 1831, died young ; Andrew T., died 
young. 

Asa Thurlo, brother of the preceding, had : Miranda, b. 
October 4, 1823; Cyrus, b. December 15, 1815; he married a 



HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 261 

daughter of Ezra Eidlon, and was killed at the battle of Spott- 
sylvania Court House; Mary, b. December 8, 1828; Eliza, J., 
b. December 8, 1830, m. Ezra Eidlon, Jr. ; Jeremiah, b. August 
18, 1835 ; Isaac, b. June 25, 1838 ; Albion, b. November 29, 
1841, and Alpheus, b. February 28, 1845. 

John Thurlo, brother of the preceding, had : Eranklin H., b. 
September 20, 1830, m. Phebe A. Lane, of New Gloucester; 
Nehemiah D., b. June 28, 1832, m. Mrs. Emma C. .Thurlo ; 
Nancy C, b. June 27, 1835, m. Eli M. Benson; Emily J., b. 
March 28, 1837, m. Wm. H. Severance ; Clarinda, b. March 2, 
1841, and Arvilla A., b. May 12, 1845, m. James A. Thompson. 



Several families of Thurlow, of a different family than the 
last, have lived in the east part of the town, in the Lunt neigh- 
borhood. They came here periodically from Eaymond and 
Auburn, and returned. Some of the names of these were : 
Abraham, Davis, Emerson, James and Eichard, and their fam- 
ilies. They first began to come here in 1853, and were con- 
nected by marriage with the Lunts and Youngs, of the same 
part of the town. They were generally a shiftless lot and often 
helped by the town. 



TOWNSEND. 

George Townsend, born December 6, 1765, with his wife 
Eachel, born September 20, 1767, was here at the time of the 
incorporation of the town in 1815. Most of the family went 
to Ohio. Their children recorded here are : Thayer, b. Decem- 
ber 17, 1790, m. Hannah Starbird ; Eachel, b. April 29, 1792, 
m. David Eand; William, b. July 22, 1799; Melansa, b. Sep- 
tember 15, 1802 ; Edward T., b. January 21, 1805 ; Susanna, b. 
May 6, 1807 ; John, b. January 3, 1810 ; Polly, b. October 10, 
1812, and Mercy B., b. August 13, 1814. 



262 HISTOEY OF WOODSTOCK. 

TRUE. 

John True, from Poland, son of Jabez, began on the lot in 
the Curtis neighborhood, which he subsequently sold to Enoch 
Hammond. He remained in town only a short time and re- 
turned to Poland ; perhaps he never moved his family here, 
though some things go to show that he did. 



TUTTLE. 

Joseph Tuttle, son of John and Polly (Snell) Tuttle, came 
here from Norway in 1858, and, with E. M. Hobbs, bought out 
the Bryant's Pond House and the stage route to Andover and 
Dixfield. His father, John Tuttle, was of Turner, and his 
ancestors from the western part of the State or New Hampshire ; 
his mother from Poland. He married Martha J. Stevens, 
daughter of Ethiol, of Greenwood ; they had no children. He 
sold out in 1865, and moved to a farm on the Ptumford road, in 
Bethel. From there he removed to Providence, E. I. 



twitchell. 

Jacob Twitchell, whose wife's name was Betsey, lived in 
the south part of the town in 1816, and the birth of one child 
is on our records, namely, Polly, b. April 14, 1816. 



whitman. 

Jacob Whitman, the first of the name here, was the son of 
Jacob, of Buckfield, who came there from Bridgewater, Mass., 
when his son Jacob, Jr., was two years and a half old. He 
was born October 11, 1779, and married Dorcas Berry, daughter 
of Deacon William, of Buckfield, born June 16, 1779. In 



HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 263 

1799, in the spring, he came into Woodstock, being the fourth 
family. He settled on a piece of land which he subsequently 
bought of Michael Little, being lots numbered 24, 58 and 64' 
according to Greenwood's survey. He built a log house and 
planted corn, but his house was burned during his absence, and 
also his young corn, but he replanted it and raised a good crop. 
He lived here many years, and was a hard-working and prudent 
man. He was a lay preacher, and often held meetings in his 
own and the adjoining towns. His wife died in Woodstock, 
May 24, 1867, and he in Hebron, September 6, 1873. His 
children, all born in Woodstock, were : 

I Zilpha, b. July 4, 1801, m. Luther Whitman, Jr. 
II Abigail, b. February 15, 1803, d. unmarried. 
Ill Jacob, b. December 31, 1805, m. Polly Benson. 
IV Zeri, b. August 4, 1807, m. Mary Dale ; he died in Hebron, leaving 
several children. 
V Joshua S., b. May 9, 1809, m. Sophia Dacy, daughter of John. He 

settled in Greenwood. 
VI Reuben, b. May 25, 1811, m. Lucy Hodsdon, of Bethel, and moved 
to the Luther Briggs farm, in the south part of the town. 
VII Remember B., b. November 28, 1813, m. Daniel P. Bennett, of Green- 
wood. 
VIII Dorcas, b. March 11, 1816, m. Dustin Bryant, son of Deacon Christo- 
pher, of Greenwood. 
IX Irene, b. May 15, 1818, died unmarried. 

X Elon G., b. July 31, 1823, m. Lucy Swan, daughter of Oliver, and 
lived many years on the old homestead of his father, where he 
reared a large family of sons and daughters. A few years ago he 
sold his farm to the town for a town farm, and moved to Greenwood. 

Luther Whitman, formerly better known in this town as 
Doctor Whitman, elder brother of the preceding, born in Bridge- 
water, May 5, 1778, married Polly, oldest child of Deacon 
William Berry, of Buckfield, born February 22, 1775, came to 
Woodstock in 1800, and settled on land which the following 
year he bought of Michael Little, it being lot numbered 37, 
according to Greenwood's survey. Here he spent his days, and 
died July 20, 1849. His wife died December 28, 1837, and 
Mr. Whitman, for second wife, married Mrs. Fanny Wight, of 



264 ' HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 

Bethel. The children of Luther Whitman, all by the first wife, 

were: 

I Luther, Jr., b. February 11, 1798 ; he married Zilpha Whitman, 
daughter of Jacob, and moved to a hill farm in the east part of 
the town. Here he toiled hard and reared a large family, all but 
one of whom, as they neared man or womanhood, died of con-, 
sumption. His son Leonard married Ellen F. Bryant, daughter of 
Eli, and lives in Paris. 
II Armina, b. October 28, 1801, m. Silas Billings. 

III Rebecca, b. December, 180.3, m. Silas Billings. 

IV Winchester, b. February 14, 1806, m. Hannah M. Paine. He died in 

Bethel. 
V Learned, b. February 17, 1808, m. Deborah Twitchell, daughter of 
Joseph, of Bethel, who died, and he married a Stiles ; he lives in 
Bethel. 

VI Zephaniah B., b. September 27, 1810, m. Eliza Chase, daughter of 

Merrill. He lives on the old homestead of his father, and had, 
Sylvinia E., b. October 5, 18.3.3, m. Amos Thurlow; Vesta L., b. 
August 1, 1836, m. first; Mark F. Rawson, second, Charles Bes^e ; 
Gilman A., b. March 24, 1838, m. Evelina A. Jackson ; Napoleon 
B., b. December 28, 1839, d. from effects of wounds received at the 
battle of Shiloh ; Alanson Mellen, b. April 17, 1841, d. August 2, 
1864, at Andersonville Prison, Georgia; a brave soldier in the 
Union army ; Gilbert M. L., b. April 28, 1844, m. Adelaide Dudley ; 
lives in Wisconsin; M. JoseiDhine, b. June 25, 1845, m. Charles 
M. Bryant ; lives in Wisconsin ; Eugene Z., b. December 6, 1850, 
m. Dora V. Whitman, daughter of Learned, of Bethel. 

VII Alanson M., b. May 17, 1814, m. Eleanor Bryant, daughter of Samuel, 

Jr. They had one child, who died. He lives at the Pond. 
VIII Clarissa, b. September 11, 1818, died October 11, 1859. 
IX Albion K. P., b. October 9, 1820, m. Elvina S. Bryant, daughter of 
Samuel, Jr. He lived at Bryant's Pond, was a carpenter and Deputy 
Sheriff, but died before 1860. He had Eva R., and Alice E., who 
died, Austis A., who married and lives in Portland, Aldana, who 
is a carriage smith, married the daughter of Orlando C. Houghton, 
and has lived in Woodstock, and Ida M., who married Malcolm 
Enearl, and lives at Bryant's Pond. 

Joseph Whitman, brother of the preceding, born March 26, 
1781, married Polly Cole, daughter of Eleazer, born September 
30, 1783. He came quite early into town and settled on the 
farm since owned by D. J. Libby. His children were : 




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HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 265 

I Cyprian, b. February 10, 1808, m. Eliza J. Benson. His only children 

recorded here are : Jonathan, b. June 4, 1828, and Esther, b. 

March 8, 1831. He had oth^f children born elsewhere. 
n Milla, b. February 27, 1809, m. Suel Bisbee. 
in Lovicy, b. January 17, 1811, m. Isaac G. Spofford. 
IV Harrison, b. May 16, 1813, m. Delphina Perham, daughter of Jotham. 

(See Perham.) 
V Chauncy C, b. February 12, 1815, m. Lucy A. Perham, daughter of 

Jotham. They had Thomas J., b. December 28, 1840 ; Oscar F., 

b. November 13, 1847, and one other. 
VI Elhanan, b. February 26, 1817 ; he married Sally Curtis and moved 

to Waterford, where he died, and his widow married Suel Bisbee. 

He had children, Sarah J., b. April 7, 1839; Joan C, b. February 

22, 1841 ; Mary, b. February 28, 1846, and Edgar and Edson, b. 

August 26, 1851. 
VII Polly, b. February 22, 1819, m. Joshua Perham. 
VIII Joseph, b. February 19, 1821. He married Marcia Leonard, daughter 

of Solomon, and had Charles O., who graduated at Bowdoin 

College, studied in Germany, and was a teacher in Japan, and 

other children. 
IX Harriet, b. April 3, 1823, m. first, John A. Caswell, and second, 

Lawson Hill. Her daughter Sylvina married Jeremy J. Cram. 
X Tyla, or Silence, b. February 7, 1826, m. Oren Glines. Their daughter 

Mary M., b. March 7, 1844, married Jared W. Whitman, son of 

Jacob, Jr., an Advent preacher. They also had Emily Etta, b. 

March 26, 1848. Mr. Glines moved to Paris and died there. 



WHITTEMORE. 

Isaac Whistemore, born in Hebron, in 1785, came to this 
town in 1829. He was married in 1807, to Polly Dean. He 
was edncated at Hebron Academy and a school teacher. He 
was frequently in town office in Hebron, and for several terms 
a member of the Legislature. During his four years' residence 
here, he was a selectman for three years and superintending 
school committee for the same period. He resided in the south 
part of the town and taught school in winter. He moved from 
here to Eumford, and died there September 12, 1842. His wife 
died December 8, 1889. His children were : Enoch, m. Sarah 



266 HISTOKY OF WOODSTOCK. 

Cole ; Mary, and Deborah, died in infancy ; Mary, again, married 
Orin Green, lives in Iowa ; Sarah, m. Samuel Knapp ; Isaac, m. 
Mfvry E. Eay ; Deborah, again, married Benjamin F. Hutchins, 
second, Samuel Newhall, lives in Rumford ; William W., m. 
Julia A. Green ; Eebecca ; Lucy C, m. George A. Eay, lives in 
Eumford ; Thomas C. ; Nathaniel (Eev.) m. Frances Abbott, 
resides in Acton, Me. ; Josiah, died young ; Josiah D., married 
and resides in Iowa. 

Enoch Whittemore, son of the preceding, born in Hebron, 
December 28, 1808, married, May 15, 1836, Sarah Cole, born 
in Greenwood, April 15, 1816. Children : Enoch, b. May 27, 
1838, m. Nancy J. Cushman, daughter of Thomas C, of this 
town ; he lives in Fayette ; Josiah D., b. November 23, 1840, d. 
young; Abby Jane, b. April 4, 1842, d. 1858; Josiah D., b. 
October 16, 1844, d. 1869; Sarah E., b. July 29, 1846 ; Mary 
D., b. July 24, 1850, m. Joseph F. Child, of Paris; Lucinda, 
b. August 22, 1854; Lucy Jane, b. September 21, 1857, m. 
Leroy F. Everett, of Norway ; Nellie Abby, b. October 27, 1860, 
m. Simon Fickett, son of Chester D., of this town. Enoch 
Whittemore died in Paris, January 4, 1877. 



WYMAN. • 

• 

Bela Wyman came here from Paris about 1828. His wife was 
Hepsibath Drink water ; both were born in North Yarmouth. 
They lived in a house, in the Perham neighborhood, which has 
long since been torn down. They had sons, William, Joseph, 
Seward and Eichmond, and daughters, Eliza, Mercy and Sophro- 
nia. Seward had a son Freeman, who married a daughter of 
Daniel Perkins, and is perhaps the only descendant of Bela 
Wyman left in town. Eliza never married, and resides at South 
Paris ; Sophronia married William Young, son of Joshua. 



HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 267 

YORK. 

David York was in this town in 1839. He lived in the 
Bilhngs neighborhood. His wife was Basmuth Swett, daugh- 
ter of Benjamin, of Bethel. Their children were : Uriah P., 
m. 1850, Laura Sophia Glines ; George H., b. April 3, 1834, m. 
first, Susan M. Stevens, second, Amanda M. Porter ;■ Louisa, b. 
November 11, 1837, m. fil-st, Henry Jordan, second, a Mr. 
Barrows, of Sumner, third, a Martin, of Eumford ; Cynthia, b. 
September 25, 1840, m. G. A. Bucknam, of Sumner ; Eachel, b. 
December 28, 1842, m. 1863, Geo. H. Barrows, of Sumner. 
They may have had other children. 



Stephen York, Jr., was here in 1831 ; he came from Pdley 
Plantation, and originally from Standish. He married Nancy 
Young, daughter of Joshua, and moved to Albany, where his 
wife died, and he married again. 



Daniel G. York, a shoemaker, son of Peter, of Newry, was 
here in 1864. He moved from here to the William G. Bryant 
farm in Milton Plantation. His wife was a Bean, of Bethel, 
and he had a son Lyman, who was also a shoemaker, a daughter 
Albina, and other children. While living on the Bryant place, 
his house was struck by lightning, and one entire side broken 
into fragments. No one was seriously injured, but his wife, 
who had long been confined to the house from paralysis, was 
temporarily improved by the shock. 



YOUNG. 

Joshua Young, son of Job, of Gray, moved to Paris and 
from there came into Woodstock. He lived on the place on 
which Levi Berry formerly lived, and which is now occupied by 
Daniel Day. His wife was Mary Tenney, and his children, all 
born before he came to Woodstock, were : Moses Humphrey, 



268 HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 

m, Eachel Howe and moved to Albany ; William, m. Sophronia 
Wyman and died in Paris ; Sally, m. Oren Gray, of Paris ; 
Nancy, m. Stephen York, Jr., of Eiley, and moved to Albany ; 
Mary A., m. E. Eastman and moved to Sweden. 



Joshua Young, son of Caleb (no relation to the preceding), 
was born in Buckfield. He was ti stone-cutter, and came to 
Woodstock to work on the quarry near Bryant's Pond, and died 
here. His wife was Nancy Huzzey, of Buckfield, daughter of 
James, and they had one son and three daughters, who, with 
their mother, left Woodstock soon after their father's death. 



Atwood and Frank Young came to the east part of the town. 
They came from Eaymond, and were connected with the 
Thurlow family. The former enlisted and died in the service. 



Charles A. Young, son of William, and grandson of Amos, 
of Norway, came here and married Eosina, daughter of Thomas 
N. Eicker. (See Eicker). He was a painter. His wife died 
young and he moved away, leaving one child with the mother's 
family. 



HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 269 



CORRECTIONS AND ADDITIONS. 



No attempt has been made to correct errors in Family 
Sketches. They are claimed to be only approximately correct. 
Many of the marriages and births were taken from the town 
records, and tliese are not always correct. It frequently happens 
that the younger children in a family have not been recorded, 
as for instance in the case of Dea. Calvin Jackson : his younger 
children, Randall and Ellen, were not on the town records, and 
so are omitted in the re(i|)rds of the family in this book. Almon 
T. Billings, son of Silas, was left out of the family ; he resides 
in northern New York. 

On page 131, the saw mill referred to as run by Joseph and 
Seth Davis, was built by Simon Fickett. Samuel Stephens 
built a grist mill near Andrew's mill, in South Woodstock, after 
the mill near Abel Bacon's went to ruin. Geo. E. Gibson 
should have been placed among the traders. He traded in com- 
pany with Wm. R. Howe in the Rolfe store, north of the hotel, 
two years. Page 199, Daniel Cummings should be given among 
the children of Isaac. Page 209, Paulina " Dudley " should 
read Paulina " Felt." On same page, for Elia Bryant, read 
Eli. Page 215, Oilman Farnum, son of Samuel, is twice re- 
corded ; the last should have been omitted. 



APPENDIX. 



APPENDIX. 273 



EXTRACTS 

FROM 

Stephen Chase's Diary 

1801-1 806. 



1801. 

Lewiston, March 2d. Agreed with Esq. Little to go and help lot out his 
part of Township No. 3. 8th. Left Lewiston for the purpose of going to 
Township No. 3, to lay it out in lots. Arrived at Esq. Little's in the even- 
ing; he informed me that he had let the business out by the job. 9th. Pro- 
ceeded on as far as Capt. Bolster's^ in Paris, when we met Mr. Alexander 
Greenwood, tlie surveyor, and two other hands ; proceeded on to Mr. Jacob 
Whitman's, on the laud aforesaid. 10th. We found the most south- 
westerly corner and run up 100 rods, then run across said grant, then found 
the most easterly comer, then run about one mile and camped on a large 
beach hill. 11th. We run a little more than a mile and was beat off by 
a rain storm, which continued for several days. We quit the line and 
traveled three hours to gain the road, which was about two miles ; the snow 
was very slumpy, and exceding bad traveling. We arrived at Mr. Whitman's 
about one o'clock. 12th. It being rainy, we repaired our snow shoes. 
13th. It being rainy in the fore part of the day, we went up to the Bryant's 
opening and measured the road from Luther Briggs' to Jacob Whitman's 
house, distance one mile and a half and seventy-eight rods. 14th. We left 
Mr. Whitman's with our baggage for the purpose of going into the woods to 
find our line, but the snow proved soft, we returned to Mr. Whitman's, and 
determined to set away for home. Mr. Greenwood and myself went into 
the woods to find some provision which we left there on Tuesday last. We 
traveled on the south side of Mount Vernon two and a half miles — pretty 
clear hard wood. loth. We left Mr. Whitman's for home — we came on as 
far as Capt. Bolster's, in Paris, and there parted. I arrived at my father's 
(in Poland) about sunset. * * » ♦ » 

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274 APPENDIX. 

23d. Left Lewiston for the purpose of going to Little's plantation — arrived 
at my father's and spent the night. 24th. Went to Hebron, and was in- 
formed that Mr. Greenwood was gone to Little's plantation. I stopped at 
Esq. Greenwood's house to hear an examination on complanit of Capt. Bridg- 
ham, against sundry persons, fqr breaking his mill-stone ; the complaint was 
not supported by evidence and the persons were discharged. I returned to 
Esq. Little's and agreed to proceed to No. 3. Eeceived of Esq. Little cash, 
6s. 25th. I went on and arrived at Jacob Whitman's, and there was in- 
formed that Mr. Greenwood had gone up with his third range line, to return 
with the fourth the next day. 26th. I took the lot above Mr. Whitman's 
house and traveled' eastward over Mount Vernon, the growth of wood was 
mixed, chiefly hemlock, till I reached the easterly side of the hill, when [it 
was] chiefly hardwood. Spent the day in looking around the lots on Mount 
Vernon. I put up at Mr. Owen's and the surveyors did not arrive. 27th. 
Went to Mr. Whitman's and could not get any information of the surveyors, 
and proceeded on the Bryant's opening and could get any [no] information 
there. I spent the day in making observations on the land and returned to 
Mr. Whitman's. There got information that the surveyors had been in and 
that they staid the preceding night at Mr. Thurloe's. They were then gone 
up with their fifth range line, to return with the last the next day. 27th. I 
took a tour into the woods and spent the forenoon in making observations 
on the land — in the afternoon the surveyors returned. 29th. We run the 
5th and 6th cross lines. 30th. Set out for home. I came by the way of 
Hebron — took dinner at Mr. Greenwood'* * * * 

April 19th. Left Lewiston for the purpose of going to Little's plantation 
to fix on a lot of laud for myself. Spent the night at my father's in Poland. 
20th. Proceeded in company with Esq. Little, John Carr, S. Andros and my 
brother. We arrived at Jacob Whitman's. In the afternoon we divided 
our company, and a part of us went to Luther Briggs.' 21st. We spent the 
day in traveling through the woods and taking a view of the land. 22d. I 
made choice of Lot No. 33 to make me a farm ; my brother made choice of 
Lot No. 28; John True, of Lot No. 21. 23d. Returned to Lewiston. 
#*» * ** **» 

May 11th. Agreed with my brother to go to Little's plantation, to falling 
trees, the first week In June. « * * 

June 1st. Left Lewiston with Daniel Welch, my hired hand, for the purpose 
of going to Little's plantation to falling trees ; arrived at my father's and 
was joined by Sergeant Tyler. 2d. Proceeded to Mr. Owen's, on said 
plantation, and spent the night. 3d. I sent my horse back to John Rob- 
inson's, and proceeded with my baggage to Lot No. 3 [33], and began falling 
trees on the line, Lot No. 3 [33] and Lot No. 28, purchased by Merrill Chase. 
4th. Being good weather, continued falling. 5th. Being rainy, which beat 
us off from work the chief of the day. 6th. Fair weather, but very cool. 
7th. Took a walk to take a view of the laud. 8th. Mr. [Messrs.] Trafton, 



APPENDIX. 275 

Davis, Nevens and Thaddeus Hildreth arrived here and spent the night with 
us. 9th. Mr. Trafton and company set away for home. 10th. Sergeant 
Tyler set out for home. 12th. John Tyler, John Chase and Samuel Haskell 
arrived here and spent the night with us. 1.3th. I took a walk with Tyler 
and company to take a view of the land. 14th. Set away for home and 
arrived at Lewiston at night. 8th. Left Lewiston for the purpose of going 
to No. 3 to pu€ up my log house — had Mr. Jepson's mare. I arrived at my 
father's in Poland, and spent the night. I proceeded with my brothers, 
Merrill and Edmund, and arrived at Mr. Thurlo's and spent the night. Sent 
the mare back to my father's by Edmund, and proceeded to our lots ; built 
our camp and began to cut logs. 11th. A stormy day — we finished cutting 
our logs and began to cut our roads. 12th. Finished cutting out the road 
from our lots to Mr. Thurlo's, and went to Mr. Renniff's to borrow chains for 
hauling our logs. 13th. Mr. Thurlo came in with his oxen and we hauled 
the logs for Merrill's house and began mine, and laid the foundation of 
Merrill's house. 14th.' Mr. Thurlo came in again with his oxen, and finished 
hauling the logs for my house and laid the foundation. 15th. Did sundry 
errands among the neighbors. 16th. Stormy. We went to work on our 
walls. 18th. Very rainy — finished laying up the walls of my house. 19th. 
We- went to work for Mr. Thurlo. 20th. We went to work for Mr. Thurlo, 
and Edmund arrived with father's mare. 21st. We collected the small 
timbers for the roof of buildings and set away for home, and arrived at 
my father's, in Poland and spent the night. 22d. Arrived home at Lewis- 
ton, accompanied by John Carr. ***** 

1802. 

January 2Gth. Took my steers from Mr. Reed's and drove them to Esq. 
Little's; went to my father's on my way to No. 3. 27th. Proceeded on to 
Ebenezer Hutchinson's, and staid that night. 28th. Agreed with Mr. Hutch- 
inson for some boards at four dollars per thousand and paid cash §8, and 
•went on to my lot; made preparation for going to work and returned to Mr. 
Thurlo's to sleep. 29th. Went to work, and returned to Mr. Thurlo's to 
sleep. oOth. Mr. Thurlo hauled the first load of boards, and I slept in my 
house for the first time. 31st. Went to Mr. Nason's to see about some 
corn. 

February 1st. Mr. Thurlo hauled the second load of boards, and I put on 
the roof of my house. 2d. Mr. Thurlo hauled the third load of boards, 
which made 700 feet, and I boarded the roof of my house. 3d. To work on 
my house and falling trees. 4th. Peeled basswood bark for battens and 
fell trees. . 6th. Set away for home and staid at father's the night. 6th. 
Agreed with William Bray and John Carr to go to Lewiston for my goods 
on Tuesday, to haul them to my father's at 25 cents per hundred, and re- 
turned home. * * * 9th. Fixing for moving. William Bray arrived ; 



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John Carr did not come. Agreed with Abner Harris to haul me a load with 
his oxen. 10th. Set away from Lewiston with my goods and arrived at 
my father's in Poland. * * * I5th. Agreed with Mr. William Pottle 
for a pair of oxen to go with Capt. Pottle's, which I had on my father's 
account, to haul a load of goods to No. 3. IGth. Set away from my father's 
for No. 3, and put up at Caleb Fuller's. 17th. Left my loom, two wheels, 
1 bedstead and cord, 1 chair, at Mr. Fuller's, and proceeded on to Edward 
Pollard's and left my load, and returned to Mr. Fuller's and put up. 18th. 
Keturned to Poland. 19th. Spent the night at Mr. Carr's. 20th. Went to 
New Gloucester; spent the night at Peter Merrill's. 21st. Went to meeting 
and heard Mr. Barnes ; spent the night at Uncle Chase's. 22d. Brought 
my wife and children to Poland. ***** 

March 8th. Agreed with John Carr to carry a load of goods to No. 3. 9th. 
Set away with John Carr with a single sleigh and a load of goods for No. 3 ; 
carried them to John Robinson's on account of the weather. 10th. Mr. 
Nason hauled my goods from Robinson's to Thurlo's. 11th. Went in to my 
house and made preparations for going to work. 12th. To work on my house. 
13th. Met Mr. Nason at Owen's and purchased twenty bushels of corn. 
14th. Went to Thurlo's and Pollard's. 15th. To work on my house. 16th, 
Merrill Chase arrived and moved into my house. 17th. Set away in cpm- 
pany with my father for home, and arrived at my father's house. * * * 
21st. Went to Esq. Little's, and agreed for his horse to go to No. 3. 22d. 
Set out with my family on horse-back for No. 3. Proceeded as far as Caleb 
Fuller's, in Paris, and hired his lumber box and proceeded as far as Edward 
Pollard's in No. 3, then put up for the night. 2-3d. Arrived with my family 
at my house in No. 3. Hauled two loads of goods from Edward Pollard's, and 
returned to Minot. 24th. Set out from Minot with my two hogs, and put up 
at Capt. Bolster's. 2.5th. Arrived at my house, and Merrill Chase moved 
from my house to his own. 26th. Went to Owen's and brought away 2^^ 
bushels of corn — sent % bushel to mill by Thurlo. 27th. To work on my 
house— sent % bushel of corn to mill by Thurlo. 28th. Sunday — Windy 
and very cold for the season. 29th. Built a hog pen. 30th. Made 22 sap 
troughs. 31st. Made plank to finish out my floor. 

Aijril 1st. Set one glass window. Shut up my hogs and began to catch 
sap. 2d. Went to Mr. Owen's and brought % bushel of corn. 3d. Set 
one glass window. 4th. Went to Mr. Owen's and brought ^ bushel of 
corn. 5th. Bought of E. Pollard one peck of wheat and borrowed one 
peck of rye and carried to mill. 6th. Began junking my fell trees. Re- 
ceived the first visit from women of Mrs. Thurlo and Mrs. Pollard. 7th. 
Junking. 8th. Fast day. 9th. Junking. 10th. A snow storm — fell about 
11 inches deep. 11th. Windy and cold. r2th. Continues to be cold, and 
the snow lies on the ground. 13th. Lopping limbs among my burnt 
trees. 14th. Junking and piling the remainder of the week. 18th. Went 
to Mr. Owen's and brouglit away 3>^ bushels of corn. 19th. Junking and 



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piling. 20th. Borrowed of Mr. Pollard % bushel of corn and 3^ bushel of 
rye and went to mill, and went to Mr. Renniff's and agreed to fall one acre 
of trees for 12 s. — to have rye at 4-G per bushel. 21st. Rainy in the morn- 
ing — went to junking and piling. Two Mr. Bryants made a visit here. 22d. 
Burned the brush around the house. 23d. Clearing. 24th. Settled with 
Mr. Thurlo and agreed to give him four day's work, two to be done the week 
after next and two to be done in rye harvest, which is the balance of account 
between Mr. Thurlo and myself. 25th. Went to Mr. Owen's and brought 
% bushel of corn. 2Gth. Went to Mr. Thurlo's and brought % bushel of 
potatoes. 27th. Went to Mr. Renniff's to falling trees. 28th. Falling trees. 
Took % bushel of rye to mill and came home. 29th. Work at home. 30th. 
To work at Mr. Thurlo's. 

May 1st. Work at home. 2d. Went to Mr. Owen's and brought ^4 bushel 
of corn. 3d. Set fire to our opening, and had a tolei-able good burn.' 4th. 
piling brands. 5th. Work for Mr. Thurlo. 6th, 7th, 8th. Work at home. 
9th. Went to Mr. Owen's and took % bushels of corn and carried it to mill. 
10th, 11th. Work at home. 12th. Went to Mr. Owen's and took ^ bushels 
of corn and carried it to mill. 13th. Rainstorm. The weather had been very 
dry before. Made a table. 14th. Storm continued. 15th. Went to Mr. 
Owen's and brought % bushels of corn. Storm continued. 16th. Went to 
Minot and settled with Wm. Bray, and gave my note for 3 dollars and 33 
cents, payable 15th of February next. 18th. Very, rainy, which prevented 
my return home. 19th. Returned home. 20th. Junking and piling. 21st. 
Went to Caleb Fuller's for articles which I left there on the 19th. 22d. 
Finished piling. 23d. Went to Mr. Owen's and brought away ^ bushels of 
corn. 24th. Went to Nason's and got 1 bushel of seed corn. 25th. 
Building hog yard. 26th. Merrill Chase arrived from Minot with his hogs 
and a pig for me. He agreed to keep my pig until I bring my cow, and have 
his pay in corn. 27th. To work for Luther Briggs. 28th. To work for 
Jacob Whitman, and spoke to him for a i)lg — to give him one days' work, or 
4s. cost, or one bushel of corn next winter, as I shall think best. The pigs 
came this morning. 29th. Rainy weather. 30th. Went to Mr. Owen's and 
brought 1 bushel of corn. 31st. Very rainy. Very wet season, which 
causes people to be very late at planting. 

June 1. Went to Mr. Owen's and took one bushel of corn, and went to 
mill. Returned and went to planting. 2d. Planting. William Pottle here 
from Minot. I went with Mr. Pottle to Abraham Walton's — rainy day. 
4th. Planting. 5th. To work for Mr. Thnrlo. 6th. Went to Mr. Owen's 
and brought one bushel of corn. 7th. Burned my piles. 8th. Rainy. 9th, 
10th, 11th. Planting. 12th. Finished planting corn. 13th. Went to Mr. 
Owen's and brought 1 bushel of corn. 14th. Finished my hog yard and put 
my hogs into the yard. loth. Fencing the opening. 16th. To work for 
Jacob Whitman for a pig. 17th. Began falling trees. 18th. Falling trees. 
IBth. Set away to Minot and arrived at my father's. 20th. At my father's. 



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21st. Eeturned home and drove my cow and calf. 22d. Making cow yard 
and pig pen. 23d. Took my pig from Merrill Chase's. 24th. Brought my 
pig from Jacob Whitman's. 25th. Went to Mr. Renniff's to falling trees. 
26th. Took % bushel of corn and y^ bushel of rye, and returned home. 
27th. Went to Mr. Owen's and brought 1 bushel of corn. 28th. Rainy. 
29th. Falling trees. 30th. Falling trees. 

July 1st. Falling trees. 2d. Falling trees. 3d. Went to Mr. Owen's 
and took 1 bushel of corn and went to mill. 4th. Went to Mr. Owen's and 
brought \].2 bushels of corn. 5th. Had Mr. Pollard to help me fall trees; 
paid him in pork. 6th. Setting plants. Had Mr. Pollard to help me fall 
trees. 8th. Helping Mr. Pollard fall trees. 9th. Falling trees. 10th. 
Went to Mr. Owen's and took 1 bushel corn, and paid Mr. Pollard % bushel 
of which I borrowed of him, and carried the remainder to mill, and had 3^ 
bushel of rye of Mr. Reniff. 11th. Went to Mr. Owen's and brought away 
1 bushel of corn. 12th. Hoeing corn. 13th. Falling trees. 14th. Finished 
falling trees. 15th. Hoeing corn. 16th. Hoeing com. 17th. Finished 
hoeing corn. 18th. Went to Owen's and brought 3^ bushel of corn and 
went to Minot. 19th. Went to work for Michael Little and continued to 
work for him the whole of the week. 25th. Went to New Gloucester and 
returned to Mr. Little's. 26th. To work for Mr. Little. 27th. To work 
for Mr. Little awhile in the morning, and set away for home ; put up at Caleb 
Fuller's. 28th. Returned home. 29th. Digging a water spring. 30th, 31st. 
Unwell. 

August 1st. Went to Mr. Owen's and brought away ^^ bushel of corn. 
2d. Digging a cellar. 3d. Digging a cellar. 4th. Went to Solomon 
Bryant's and bought one bushel of corn. 5th. Laid my foundation for my 
chimney. 6th. Peeled bark for a chamber floor. 7th, 8th. Rainy. 9th. 
Peeling bark and covering corn crib. 10th. Went to a lecture at Mr. 
Hutchinson's. 11th. Spent the afternoon at Merrill Chase's, where they 
had .a company of quilters. 12th. A very severe gale of wind passed 
through the opening in a northerly direction and did but little damage, as it 
struck but one corner of the standing corn. 13th. Lopping limbs. 14th. 
Work for Mr. Thurlo. 15th. Went to meeting at Caleb Fuller's in Paris, 
and heard Mr. Hooper. 16th. Went to a lecture at Mr. Becklar's and heard 
Mr. Grant. 17th. To work at Mr. Thurlo's. 18th. To work for Mr. Nason. 
19th. Went to mill. 20th, 21st. To work for Mr. Nason. 22d. Sunday. 23d, 
24th. To work for Mr. Nason — a very severe thunder storm in the evening. 
25th, 26th. Work for Mr. Nason, and finished reaping for him. 27th. Owen 
and Mr. Thurlo here. 28th. Rainy. 29th. Sunday. 30th. Went to mill. 
31st. To work for Jacob Whitman. 

Septembei* 1st. Weeding my corn. 2d. Reaping for Mr. Pollard. 3d. 
Reaping for Mr. Pollard in the forenoon — tying up and shocking grain in the 
afternoon. 4th. Weeding corn. 5th. Went to meeting at Luther Whit- 
man's. 6th. Began falling trees to lay over the season. 7th. Went to 



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Solomon Bryant's and got a bushel of corn. 8th. Went to mill. 9th. Went 
to Levi Berry's to reaping, and was beat off by the rain. 10th. Falling trees. 
11th. Ditto. 12th. Sunday. 13th. My wife went to Thurlo's visiting. 
I4th. Falling trees. 15th. My father and mother arrived here from Minot. 
16th. Looking land with my father. 17th. Ditto. 18th. Ditto. 19th. 
My father and mother returned home. 20th. Building corn crib. 21st. 
Began cutting stalks. 22d. Went to mill and had the first new corn ground. 
23d. Stormy. 24th. Very stormy. 25th. Cutting stalks. 26th. Sunday. 
27th. Cutting stalks. 28th. Went to Nason's and Becklar's, and brought 
home two kittens. The first frost. 29th. Second frost. 30th. Frost con- 
tinued. 

October 1st. Frost continued ; finished cutting stalks. 2d. Went to mill. 
3d. Sunday. 4th. To work for Mr. Tlmrlo. 5th. Digging cellar drain. 
6th. Covering cellar drain. 7th. Digging potatoes. 8th. Finished digging 
potatoes ; put them in the cellar — about 40 bushels. 9th. Banking house. 
10th. Sunday. 11th. To work for Mr. Nason. 12th. Gathering corn. 
13th, 14th, 15th. Ditto. 16th. Went to mill. Rainy ; left my grist. 17th. 
Sunday — Christopher Bryant brought along my grist which I left at the mill 
the other day. 18th. To work in cellar. 19th. Gathering pumpkins. 20th, 
21st, 22d, 23d. Finished gathering pumpkins. 24th. Sunday. 25th, 26th. 
gathering corn. 27th. Went to meeting, . and heard Mr. Tripp, at Luther 
Briggs'. The first snow of the season fell. 28th. To work in cellar. 29th. 
Gathering corn. 30th. Went to mill. 31st. Snow storm. 

November 1. Severe rain storm. 2d. Finished gathering corn — raised 
about sixty bushels. 3d. Snow storm. 4th. To work in cellar. 5th. 
Ditto. 6th. Finished digging cellar. 7th. Sunday. 8th. Began cutting 
butt stocks. 9th. Building oven. 10th. Finished oven. 11th. Baked in 
oven. 12th. Stacking fodder. 13th. Finished stacking fodder. 14th. 
Sunday, loth. To work on chimney. 16th. Went to mill. Michael Little, 
Esq., came here, and Simeon Deering with him. 17th. Went to mill. 18th. 
Got sundry roots and trees at Packard's, and set them out. 19th. Set away 
for Minot, and arrived at my father's. * * * 22d. Returned home and 
drove an ox. Edmund accompanied me. 23d. Killed my ox. 24th. Sold 
3^ to Edward Pollard, and went to the County road to work on the same, 
and nobody to work. Agreed with Luther Whitman to go to work Friday 
next, and returned home. 25th. Thanksgiving day. 26th. To work on 
chimney. 27th. To work on road. 28th. Sunday. 29th to work on road. 
30th. Ditto. 

December 1st. To work on road in the forenoon. In the afternoon, driven 
off by the rain. 2d, 3d, 4th. To work on the County road. 5th. Sunday. 
6th. Killed my hogs ; weight— sow, 259)^ ; barrow, 204)^. 7th. Went to 
mill. 8th. To work on the road. 9th. To work on my chimney. 10th. 
Esq. Little and William Pottle came here. We went to Abraham Walton's. 
11th. To work on my chimney. 12th. Sunday. 13th. Topped out my 



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chimney. 14th. "Went to mill. loth. To work for Merrill Chase. 16th. 
Hauling barn logs. 17th. Severe cold morning. 18th. Weather moderated. 
19th. Sunday. 20th. To work on barn. 21st. Laying up barn. 22d, 23d, 
24th. Ditto. 25th. Collecting bills of work on County road for Esq. Little. 
26th. Sunday. 27th. Mr. Thurlo hauled in my loom. I agreed to allow 
him one day's work. 28th. Took Solomon Bryant's horse and set away to 
Minot, and arrived at my father's. 29th. Went to Esq. Little's and delivered 
him the bills of work done on the County road in No. 3 ; got a bushel of salt 
and went to William Pottle's in the evening, and returned to my father's. 
30th. Returned home. 31st. To work on the road betwixt my house and 
the Bryant opening. 

1803. 

January 1st. Went to mill. 2d. Sunday. 3d. To work on looms. 5th, 
6th. Ditto. 7th, 8th. Ditto. 9th. Went to meeting at Mr. Cole's and heard 
Mr. Whitman. 10th. Made warping bars. 11th. Got the loom a going. 
12th. Went to mill. 13th. Weaving. 14th. Junking. 15th. Weaving. 
16th. Sunday. 17th. Ruhamah very sick with dysentery. 18th. Went 
for Dr. Croswell. 19th. Dr. Croswell returned home. Ruhamah better. 
20th. Weaving. 22d. Cutting wood. 23d. Sunday. 24th. Got some 
basket stuff and began making baskets. 25th. Hunted after wood for basket 
stuff. 26th. Went to mill. 27th. Got barks for dyeing cloth. 28th. 
Cutting wood. 29th. Weaving. 30th. Went with Esq. Little to Solomon 
Bryant's. 31st. Went to Christopher Bryant's for my hogs. 

February 1st, 2d, 3d. Weaving. Very rainy, with thunder. 4th. Weaving. 
5th. Went to mill. 6th. Mr. Pollard spent the day here. 7th. Tapped some 
maple trees. 8th. Sundry jobs. 9th. Weaving. 10th. Went to mill. 11th, 
12th. Junking. 13th. Very rainy. 14th. To work on barn. 15th. To work 
on hog pen. 16th. Junking. 17th. Went to Mr. Pollard's, and he was moving 
his family to the other part of the town. 18th, 19th. Junking. 20th. Went 
to Mr. Hutchinson's, expecting there was a meeting, and there was not any. 
21st, 22d. Junking. 23d. Settled with Merrill Chase, and passed receipts 
in full of all accounts. 24th. Chopping. 25th. Went to mill. 26th. Went 
to Jacob Whitman's, and got a bushel of rye due for reaf)ing. 27th. Went 
to meeting at Mr. Cole's, and heard Mr. Whitman. 28th. To work in barn. 

March 1. Making bedstead. 2d. Finished the same. 3d. Mending up 
hog yard. 4th. Went to mill and bought y^ bushel of salt for ^ bushel of 
corn. 5th. Cutting wood. 6th. Went to meeting at Mr. Fuller's, and 
heard Mr. Whitman. 7th. Went to mill. 8th. Went to mill with Mr. 
Bryant. 9th. Carried my hides to Mr. Bryant's. 10th. Making sap 
troughs. 11th. Ditto. 12th. Cutting wood. 13th. Went to Bryant's. 
15th. Went to New Gloucester. 16th. Went to Lewiston, 17th. Went 
to Pejepscutt. 18th. Returned to Minot. 19th. Returned home. 20th. 



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Went to S. Bi-yant's to meeeting. 21st. Tapping maple trees. 22d. Help- 
ing C. Bryant hunt for his cattle. 2.3d. Went to Caleb Fuller's for my 
barrel. 2.5th. Drove my cow to Levi Berry's. 26th. Snow storm. 27th. 
Sunday. 28th. Went to Abraham Walton's, and bought ten bushels of 
corn, and carried one bushel to mill. 29th. Junking— rainy. 30th. Began 
to boil sap for sugar. 31st. Junking; caught 100 gallons of sap from 50 trees. 

April 1st. Junking. 2d. Ditto. 3d. Sunday. 4th. Junking. 5th. Fin- 
ished junking. 6th. Began lopping my fell trees. 7th. Very rainy. 8th. 
Snowstorm. 9th. Picked over my potatoes. 10th. Sunday. 11th. Went 
to Abraham Walton's and gave him my note of hand, seven dollars and fifty 
cents, to be paid the first of March next. Took one bushel of corn and went 
to mill. 12th. Lopping limbs. 13th, 14th. Ditto. 15th. ^Snow storm. 
16th. Snow storm increases, the snow falls very fast, with the wind at N. E. 
17th. Storm continues — the snow has fallen about one foot deep, which is 
the greatest quantity of snow we have at any on@, time the winter past. 
18th. Fair weather. 19th. A great run of sap. 21st. Lopping limbs. 
24th. Sunday. 25th. Brought my cow from Levi Berry's. 2Gth. Fenced 
a garden. 27th. Piling. 30th. Went to mill; got a bushel of corn at 
Walton's. 

May 1. Went to meeting at Samuel Bryant's and heard Mr. Whitman. 
2d. To work for Solomon Bryant. 3d, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th. Ditto. 8th. 
Went to meeting at William Swan's, and heard Mr. Whitman. There fell 
about 10 inches of snow this day. 9th. Getting out my seed corn. 10th, 
11th, 12th, 13th, 14th. Piling. 15th. Meeting at our house. 16th. To 
work for Solomon Bryant. 17th. To work for Samuel Bryant on Solomon 
Bryant's account. 18th. Burned my fell trees, and had a pi-etty good burn. 
19th. Sowed my hay seed. 30th. Went to Nason's and got half a bushel 
of seed corn. 21st. Had Solomon Bryant's horse and went to Abraham 
Walton's and got two bushels of corn, and went to mill. 22d. Sunday. 
24th. Burned the old ground. 25th, 26th, 27th, 28th. Junking the new 
ground. 29th. Went to meeting at Mr. Swan's and heard Mr. Becklar read. 
30th. Finished piling my new ground. 

June 1st, 2d, 3d, 4th. Planting. Went to meeting at Mr. Swan's and read 
a discourse of Bunyan's works. 6th. Mr. Ricker, of Somersworth, came 
here. 7th. Spent the day with Mr. Ricker looking of land. 8th, 9th, 10th, 
11th. Planting. 12th. Went to meeting at Mr. Cole's and heard Mr. Beck- 
lar read. 13th. Finished planting corn. 14th. To work for Solomon 
Bryant. 15th. Planting potatoes. 16th. Went to Abraham AValton's, and 
took one bushel of corn and went to mill. 17th. Finished planting potatoes. 
18tb. Planting. 19th. Went to C. Bryant's. 20th. Fencing. 21st. Ditto. 
22d. Falling trees. 23d. Ditto. 24th. Christopher Bryant to work here. 
25th. Falling trees. 26th. Sunday. 27th. Falling trees. 28th. Solomon 
Bryant to work here. 29th. Went to Mr. Becklar's falling frolick. 30th. 
Went to a lecture at Mr. Swan's and heard Mr. Tripp. 



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July 1st. Falling trees. 2d. Finished falling trees. 3d. Spent the day 
hunting for my cow. 4th. Went to Abraham Walton's, and took 2 bushels 
of corn and went to mill. 5th. Went to Minot. 6th. Went to New 
Gloucester. My wife got to bed with a daughter. 7th. Eeturned home 
with my sister Sally, and had Mr. Bryant's horse home. 9th. Began weed- 
ing corn. 10th. Sunday. 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th. Weeding corn. 15th. 
Hoeing grass seed. 16th. Ditto. 18th. Weeding corn. 19th. Sticking 
beans. 20th. Weeding potatoes. 21st. Went to Minot with Sally Chase. 
22d. Got Mr. Bryant's horse shod. 28th, 29th, 30th, Hedging for my cow. 
31st. Sunday. 

August 1st. Had Mr. Bryant's horse, went to Abraham Walton's and got 
2 bushels of corn and went to mill. 2d. Peeling bark for crib. 3d. 
Peeled bark *id covered my hovel. 4th. Went to meeting at Mr. Swan's 
and, heard Mr. Tripp. 5th. To work for Solomon Bryant. 6th. Ditto. 
7th. Sunday. 8th. Lopping limbs. 9th. To work for Solomon Bryant % 
the day. 10th. Lopping limbs. 11th. Ditto. 12th. To work for Solo- 
mon Bryant. 13th. Ditto. 14th. Mr. Thurlow and wife here. 15th. 
Lopping limbs. 16th. My wife and children went to Thurlo's. 17th. Lop- 
ping limbs. 18th, 19th, 20th. Ditto. 21st. Sunday. 22d, 23d. Finished 
lopping limbs. 24th. Began to fall trees to lay over. 25th, 26th. Ditto. 
27th. Burned my fell trees ; got a good burn. 28th. Had seven men here 
stopping fire among my corn. 29th. Watching fires. 30th. Ditto. 31st. 
Fencing. 

September 1st. Fencing. 2d, 3d. Ditto. 4th. Went to meeting at Mr. 
Swan's and heard Mr. Whitman. 5th. Falling trees. 6tli. Hunting my 
cow. 7th. Worked for Christopher Bryant. Esq. Little and Capt. Tyler 
came here. 8th. Capt. Tyler went home. Went to Mr. Bryant's expecting 
a meeting, but the preacher did not come. 9th. To work for Mr. C. Bryant. 
10th. Ditto. 11th. Sunday. 12th. Falling trees. 13th, 14th. Ditto. 
15th. Began cutting stalks. 16th, 17th. Ditto. 18th. Sunday. 19th. 
First frost. Cutting stalks. 20th. Ditto. 21st. Beat out my flax seed 
and had my flax out rotting. 22d. Cutting stalks. 23d, 24th. Ditto. 25th. 
Sunday. 26th. Went to mill and carried new corn. 27th. Went to Paris 
and got 5 gallons of rum, for the men to work on the road in No. 3. 28th. 
Went to the Bryant's. 29th. Cut up my corn where I did not cut the stalks. 
30th. Falling trees. 

October 1st. Shucking up my corn. 2d. Sunday. 3d. Went to mill. 4th, 
5th. To work on the road. 6th. Went to the raising of Seth Benson's 
barn. 7th. Went to Solomon Bryant's, and agreed with him to come 
Monday and haul my crib posts. 8th. To work on the road. 9th. Sunday. 
10th. Hauling crib posts. 11th. Making crib. 12th. Ditto, loth. Began 
digging potatoes and gathering corn. 14th. Ditto. 15th. Went to mill. 
16th. Sunday. 17th. Digging potatoes. 18th. Gathering corn. 19th. 
Snow. 20th. Digging potatoes and gathering corn. 21st. Ditto. 22d. 



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Finished digging potatoes — had ninety bushels. 23d. Sunday. 24th. Went 
to mill. 25th. Gathering corn. 26th, 27th, 28th. Ditto. 29th. Rainy. 
30th. Went to meeting at Mr. Cole's, and heard Mr. Whitman. 31st. Went 
to meeting with Mr. Bryant's horse, and went to Mr. Swan's raising. 

November 1st, 2d, 3d, 4th, 5th. Gathering corn. 6th. Sunday. 7th, 8th, 
9th, 10th, 11th. Finished gathering corn ; had 190 bushels. 12th. Prepared 
to put my cow up. 13th. Went to meeting at Mr. Cole's and heard Mr. , 
Whitman. 14th. Had Mr. Bryant to haul logs for fence. 15th. To work 
for Solomon Bryant. 16th. To work for Mr. True. 17th. Severe snow 
storm. 18th. Went to mill. 19th. Very cold. 20th. Went to meeting at 
Mr. Swan's and heard Mr. Whitman. 21st.' Threshing my wheat. 22d. 
Cleansed my wheat. 2.3d. Went to mill with Mr. Bryant's horse. 24th. 
To work in my hovel. 25th. To work for Mr. True. 2Gth. Went to Minot. 
27th. Went to Esq. Little's. 28th. Returned home. 29th. Swapped my 
steer for a heifer, with Merrill Chase. 30th. Worked for Solomon Bryant. 

December 1st. Thanksgiving Day. 2d. Cold. 3d. Very cold. 4th. 
Sunday. 5th. To work for Solomon Bryant. 6th. Preparing for putting 
up fence between myself and Merrill Chase. 7th. Had Mr. Fuller to help 
lay up fence. 8th. Had Mr. True, and finished laying up fence betwixt 
myself and Merrill Chase. Begun stacking fodder. 9th. Rainy. 10th. 
Went to husking for Samuel Bryant. 12th. Rainy, loth. Ditto. 14th. 
Stacking fodder. 15th. Ditto. 16th. Finished ditto. 17th. Went to a 
plantation meeting, and was appointed a delegate to go to Paris on Wednes- 
day next. 18th. Went to meeting at Mr. Swan's, and heard Mr. Whitman, 
who came home with me and spent the night. 19th. Fencing stack-yard. 
20th. Set up the loom. 21st. Went to the convention at Paris. 22d. Re- 
turned home. 23d. Weaving. 24th. Went to mill with Mr. Bryant's horse. 
25th. Sunday. 26th. Weaving. 27th. Ditto. 28th. Went to Mr. Nason's. 
29th. My hogs ran away to the County road. 30th. Preparing to weave a 
piece for Mr. Bryant. 31st. Had Frank Becklar and 1 pair oxen hauling 
wood. 

1804. 

January 1. Kept Mr. Becklar's oxen. 2d. Hauling wood with Frank 
Becklar and oxen. 3d. Ditto. 4th. Weaving. 5th. Killed the old sow. 
6th. Weaving. 7th. Went to Mr. Nason's. 8th. Went to meeting at Mr. 
Swan's and heard Mr. Whitman. 9th. Pounding out corn. 10th. Ditto. 
Went to Mr. Bryant's and got his horses to carry corn to the County road, 
12th. Ditto. 13th. Went to Paris, carried 11)^ bushels of corn to Mr. 
Woodbury, and returned to Mr. Bryant's. 14th. Returned home. 15th. 
Went to meeting at Mr. Swan's and heard Mr. Whitman. 16th. Cutting 
wood for Mr. Bryant. 17th. Pounding out corn. 18th. Severe storm. 
19th. Helped Mr. True in from Mr. Thurlo's. 20th. Went to mill. 21st. 
Severe cold.. 22d. Sunday. 23d. Killed my hogs. 24th. Went to Mr. 



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Bryant's. 25th. Pounding out corn. 26th. Ditto. 27th. Carrying corn 
to Mr. Bryant's. Esq. Little and John Carr here. 28th. Went to Paris 
with corn, and 29th. Sunday. 30th. To work at home. 31st. Went to 
mill. 

February 1st. Went to Paris and bought a horse. 2d. Returned home. 
3d. Returned my horse to the man I had him of. 4th. Returned home. 
5th. Carried Sally Becklar home. 6th. Got out 43^0 bushels of corn for 
Esq. Little. 7th. To work for Solomon Bryant. 8th. Got out some corn 
for John True. 9th, 10th, 11th. Weaving. 12th. Sunday. 13th. Weav- 
ing. 14th. To work for Solomon Bryant. 15th. Went to mill. 10th. To 
work for Solomon Bryant. 17th. Went before Daniel Stowell, Esq., to give 
evidence in a case between Luther Whitman, plaintiff, and David Becklar, 
defendant. 18th. Took a pair of steers coming in three years of age, to 
keep them for their work, until three years from next June, then to be de- 
livered to John Robinson. 19th. Sunday. 20th. Yoked my steers. 21st, 
22d. Ditto. 23d. Went to Abraham Walton's and promised him 12 
bushels of corn at 3s. per bushel — took the money and went to Paris and 
settled with Mr. Woodbury and Mr. Hooper, and left the money which I 
owed Dr. Croswell with Mr. Woodbury, and took his receipt for the same. 
24th. Severe storm. 25th. Very cold and windy. 26th. Sunday. 27th. 
Continues windy. 28th. Hauling wood with my steers. 2Pth. Began 
making my sled. 

March 1st. To work on sled. 2d. To work for Solomon Bryant. Sd. 
Stormy. 4th. Sunday. 5th. Work on sled. 6th. To work for Solomon 
Bryant. 7th. Preparing to go to Minot. 8th. Went to Minot. 9th. Re- 
turned as far as Seth Benson's, and spent the niglit. 10th. Returned home 
and went to the County road. 11th. Sunday. 12th. Went to Benjamin 
Bacon's. 13th. Finished my sled. 14th. Making sap troughs. 15th. 
Ditto. 16th. To work on a bridge in Paris. 17th. Ditto. 18th. Sunday. 
19th. Went to Bacon's and Bryant's. 20th. Making sap troughs. 21st. 
Ditto. 22d. Went to Bryant's and Brigg's. 23d. Went to Christopher 
Bryant's and got a bushel of rye. 24th. Making a large trough for sap. 
25th. Sunday. 26th. Tapping trees. 27th. Began boiling sap. 28th. 
Delivered John Starbird 9 bushels of corn for Mr. Abraham Walton. 29th. 
Went to mill. 30th. Boiling sap. 31st. Very stormy. 

April 1st. Very cold. 2d. Went to Mr. Bacon's to have a pair of shoes 
mended. 4th. Went to Nason's for flax seed. 5th. Fast Day. 6th. 
Making sugar. 7th. Snow storm. 8th. Went to meeting at Mr. Swan's 
and heard Mr. Whitman. 9th. Went to mill. 10th. Ground my new axe. 
11th. Begun to junk my timber. 12th. Good weather for sugaring. 13th. 
Ditto. 14th. Went with Solomon Bryant to look land. 15th. Went to 
meeting at Samuel Bryant's and heard Mr. Whitman. 16th. Went to Paris 
for grass seed ; gave my note to Capt. Rawson for live dollars and forty-five 
cents, to be paid in the mouth of March next. 17th. Junking and piling. 



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18tli, 19th, 20th. Ditto. 21st. Went to mill. 22d. Rain-storm, which is 
the first rain of any consequence since the middle of December last. 23d. 
Storm continues. Went to Luther Whitman's and got 1 bushel of rye. 24th. 
Ditto. 25th. Sowing rye. 26th, 27th, 28th. Ditto. 29th. Sunday. .30th. 
Went mill. 

May 1st. Sowing lye. 2d. Ditto. 3d. Sowing wheat. 4th. Ditto. 
5th. Junking. Gth. Sunday. 7th. Sowing flax. 8th. Went to a planta- 
tion meeting and was appointed a delegate to meet in convention at Paris. 
9th. Built my cow yard. 10th. Piling, lltli. Junking. 12th. Ditto. 
13th. Sunday. 14th. Piling. 15th. Went to Paris to represent the 
plantation of Stover in convention. 16th. Returned home. 17th, 18th. 
Piling. 19th. Set fire to the piles in my old ground. 20th. Sunday. 21st. 
Came on rainy. 22d. Piling. 2.3d, 'z4th, 25th. Ditto. 26th. Finished piling 
and went to mill. 27th. Went to meeting at Mr, Swan's and heard Elder 
Chase. 28th. To work for Luther Whitman. 29th. Ditto. 30th. Burning 
piles. 31st. Planting. 

June 1st. Planting. 2d. Ditto. Had Consider Fuller and Frank Becklar 
at planting. -Sd. Sunday. 4th. Planting. 5th. Ditto. Gth. Finished 
planting corn and went to mill. 7th. Fencing. 8th. Ditto. 9th. To work 
for Mr. True. 10th. Sunday. 11th. Carried Mr. Whitman's potatoes to 
Solomon Bryant's, and went to meeting at Mr. Swan's and heard Mr. Hooper. 
12th. Falling a hedge fence. 13th. Planting potatoes. .14th. Went to 
Minot. 15th. Returned home. 16th. Went to mill. 19th. Falling trees 
for Esq. Little on Mr. Bicker's lot. 20th. Ditto. 21st, 2'^.d, 23d. Ditto. 
24th. Sunday. 25th. Falling trees for Esq. Little on Mr. Ricker's lot. 26th. 
Ditto. 27th. Rainy. 28th. Falling trees. 29th. Finished falling trees 
on Mr. Ricker's lot. 30th. Weeding corn. 

July 1st. Sunday. 2d. Went to Paris and agreed with Mr. Lurvey to 
keep my steers and heifer. 3d. Drove my steers and heifer to Mr. Lurvey's. 
4th. To work for Asa Hutchinson. 5th. Weeding corn. 6th, 7th. Ditto. 
8th. Went to meeting at Mr. Tripp's and heard Elder Tripp. 9th. Weed- 
ing corn. 10th, 11th. Ditto. 12th. Went to mill. 13th. Falling trees. 
14th. Ditto. 15th. Sunday. 16th. Went to the raising of Abner Benson's 
barn. 17th. Went to Norway and got 10 pounds of wool carded. 18th. 
Cut some grass. 19th. Ditto. 20th. Rainy. 21st. Went to mill. 22d. 
Went to Christopher Bryant's. 23d. Got in some hay. 24th. Making hay 
at Mr. Benson's. 25th, 26th, 27th, 28th. Ditto. 29th. Returned home. 
30th. Weeding corn. 31st. Went to mill. 

August 1st. Cut a little rye and pulled some flax. 2d. Getting in some 
hay. 3d. Weeding corn. 4th. Ditto. 5th. Sunday. 6th. Peeliftg bark. 
7th, 8th. Ditto. 9th. Pulling flax. 10th. Went to mill. 11th. Same. 
12th. Went to Mr. Bryant's, expecting a meeting. 13th. Pulling flax. 14th. 
Reaping rye. 15th. Carried some new rye to mill.' 16th, 17th, 18th. 13itto. 
19th. Went to meeting at Mr. Whitman's and heard Deacon Berry. 20th. 



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Cutting rye. 21st. Ditto. 22d. Went to Mr. Bacon's to have some shoes 
mended. 23d. Cutting rye. 24th. Ditto. 25th. Threshing rye. 26th. 
Went to meeting at Paris, and heard Mr. Hooper. 28th, 29th, 30th. Reap- 
ing wheat. 31st. Mr. Ricker here. 

September 1st. Went to Paris. 2d. Went to Mr. Bryant's. 3d, 4th, 5th. 
Fencing. 6th. Spreading out ray flax. 7th. Ditto. 8th. Burned Mr. 
Ricker's felled trees. 9th. Went to meeting at Mr. Swan's and heard Elder 
Chase. He and Mr. Whitman came here after meeting. 10th. My wife set 
away for New Gloucester. 11th. Very rainy. 12th. Abigail Bryant 8ame 
here. 1.3th. Lucy Swan went home after sleeping three days. 14th. Cut- 
ting stalks. 15th. Ditto. 16th. Sunday. 17th. My wife came home. 
18th. Rainy. Brought my steers and heifer from Mr. Lurvey's ; had some 
ne^y corn ground. 20th. Stocking up my apple trees. 21st. Cutting stocks. 
22d. Ditto. 23d. Went to meeting at Luther Whitman's. 24th, 25th, 26th, 
27th, 28th, 29th. Ditto. 30th. Went to meeting at Luther Whitman's. 

October 1st. Cutting corn. 2d, 3d. Ditto. 4th. Drove my cow to 
Rumford. 5th. Went to mill. 6th. Cutting up corn. 7th. Went to 
meeting at Luther Whitman's. 8th. Set a gun for a bear ; he fired the gun 
the same night, and got wounded and made off. 9th. Snow storm and a 
severe wind. 10th. Storm continues. 11th. Began gathering com and 
digging potatoes. 12th. Ditto. 13th. Digging potatoes. 14th. Went to 
meeting at Mr. Whitman's and heard Deacon Berry. 16th. Setting up corn. 
17th. Went to a lecture at Mr. Swan's and heard Elder Low. Went to 
mill, and to a husking at Curtises. 18th. Digging potatoes. 19th, 20th. 
Ditto. 21st. Went to meeting at Mr. Swan's and heard Elder Tripp, and 
to a conference meeting at William Swan, Jr.'s. 22d. Went to meeting at 
Luther Whitman's, and was baptized, together with three others. 23d, 24th, 
25th. Digging potatoes. 26th. Finished digging potatoes. 27th. Went to 
mill. 28th. Went to meeting at Luther Whitman's and heard Mr. Ricker. 
29th, 30th, 31st. Harvesting corn. 

November 1st. Ditto. 2d, 3d. Ditto. 4th. Went to meeting at Mr. 
Whitman's and heard Mr. Drake. 5th. Went to mill. 6th. Went to a 
funeral at Christopher Bryant's. 7th. Went with Mr. Ricker and Mr. 
Wentworth to look land. 8th. Harvesting corn. 9th. Ditto. 11th. Snow 
storm. Went to Mr. Swan's to meeting, and heard Elder Low. 12th. 
Harvesting corn. 13th. Went to mill. 14th. Husking corn. 15th. Severe 
snow storm. 16th, 17th. Splitting rails. 18th. Went to meeting at Mr. 
Whitman's. 19th. Hauling rails. 20th. Stacking fodder. 21st. Ditto. 
22d. F(#icing stack yard. 23d. Finished husking corn. 24th. Finished 
fencing my fodder. 25th. Went to meeting at Mr. Swan's and heard Elder 
Woodward. 26th. Went to Minot, and carried Clarissa. 27th. Returned 
home. 28th. Went to mill. 29th. Thanksgiving day. Went to meeting 
at Luther Whitman's. 30th. Banked up my cellar. 



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December 1st. Hauling wood ; Mr. Kicker came here. 2d. Went to 
meeting at Mr. Swan's and heard Mr. Ricker. 3d. Mr. Ricker preached 
here. 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th. To work on the road. 9th. Went to meeting 
at Luther Whitman's. lOtli. Sundry jobs. 11th. Ditto. 12th. Went to 
Benjamin Bacon's to get shoes mended. 13th, 14th, 15th. Sundry jobs. 
16th. Went to meeting at Mr. Swan's and heard Deacon Willis, and to a 
conference meeting at William Swan's. 17th. Sundry jobs. 18th. Mr. 
Whitman and others here. 19th. My wife went to Mr. True's. 20th, 21st, 
22d. Sundry jobs. 23d. Went to meeting at Mr. Whitman's and heard 
Deacon Willis. 25th. Threshing. 2Cth. Went to mill and to Paris. 27th. 
Very rainy. 28th. My wife got to bed with a daughter. 29tli. Elder Chase 
called here. 30th. Stayed from meeting on account of my wife being sick. 
31st. Hauling wood ; broke the road to Mr. True's. » 

1805. 

January 1st. Hauling wood. 2d. At Mr. Cole's. 3d. Sundry jobs. 
4th. Went to Paris. Very blustering weather. 5th. Hauling wood. 6th. 
Went to meeting at Mr. Luther Whitman's. 7th. Sundry jobs. 8th. Killed 
my hogs. 9th. Ditto. 10th. Sundry jobs, lltli. Broke the road to the 
County road. 12th. Went to a conference meeting at Luther Whitman's. 
13th. Went to meeting at William Swan's. 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th, 
19th. Ditto. 20th. Went to meeting at Luther Whitman's and heard 
Deacon Willis. 21st. Sundry jobs. 22d, 23d, 24th, 25tli, 26th. Ditto. 
27th. Went to meeting at Mr. Swan's. My father and Paul Tenney went 
home from here. 28th, 29th, 30th, 31st. Sundry jobs. 

February 1st, 2d. Getting out corn. 3d. Went to meeting at Luther 
Whitman's. 4th. Getting corn. 5th, 6th. Ditto. 7th. Hauled some corn 
to Solomon Bryant to send to Portland. 8th. Hauling wood. 9th. Went 
to confei-ence meeting at Jacob Whitman's. 10th. Went to meeting at Mr. 
Swan's. 11th. Hauled Merrill's hay to Solomon Bryant's. 12th. Built a 
back to my chimney. 13th. Hauling wood. 14th. Ditto. 15th. Stormy. 
16th. Breaking roads. 17th. Went to meeting at Luther Whitman's. 18th. 
Making flax brake. 19th. Breaking road. 20th. Hauled 1}4 bushels of 
corn to S. Bryant's for D. Whitney. 21st. Hauling corn for Esq. Little to 
the mill. 22cf, 23d. Ditto. 24th. Went to meeting at Mr. Swan's. 25th. 
Making threshing floor. 26th, 27th. Ditto. 28th. Began threshing. 

March 1st, 2d. Threshing. 3d. Went to meeting at Luther Whitman's. 
4th. Mr. Berry here. 5th. Ditto. 6th. Went to mill. 7th. Hauling 
wood. 8th. Ditto. 9th. Went to a conference meeting at Consider Cole's. 
10th. Went to meeting at Mr. Swan's. 11th. Shut up my hogs. 12th. 
Went to Paris and settled with Hubbard and Crosswell. 13th. Hauled a 
load of hay from Mr. Steams'. 14th. Hauling wood. 15th. Ditto. 16th. 
Went to Mr. Stearns' and hauled a load of hay. 17th. Went to meeting at 



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Luther Whitman's ; carried my Wife with my steers and sled. 18th. Tap- 
pmg sap trees. 19th. Ditto. 20th. Rainy. 21st. Carried my turkey to 
Mr. Thurlo's. 22d. Went to mill. Jacob Whitman and wife here. 23d. 
Went to mill. 24th. Went to meeting at Mr. Swan's and heard Deacon 
Willis. 25th. Settled with Solomon Bryant. 26th. Went to mill. 27th. 
Dressing flax. 28th. Ditto. 29th. Finished dressing flax. 30th. Made 
a harrow. 31st. Went to meeting at Luther Whitman's. 

April 1st. Went to Luther Briggs'. 2d, 3d, 4th, 5th. Threshing. 6th. 
Finished cleaning grain. 7th. Went to meeting at Mr. Swan's. 8th. Laid 
my chamber floor. Went to Christopher Bryant's and got a part of a chain, 
weighing 10^4 pounds. 9th. Rainy. 10th. Ditto. 11th. Frank Becklar 
to work here. 12th. Ditto, half the day. 13th. Went to conference meet- 
ing at Mr. J. Whituian's. 14th. Went to meeting at L. Whitman's. 15th, 
16th, 17th, 18th, 19th. Piling. 20th. Rainy. 21st. Went to meeting at 
Mr. Swan's. 22d. Went to mill. 23d. Went to Mr. Willises. 24th. Went 
to Mr. Walton's barn raising. 25th. Piling' 26th. Rainy. 27th. Piling. 
28th. Went to meeting at L. Whitman's and heard Mr. Tripp. 29th. Rainy. 
80th. Sowing rye and wheat. 

May 1st, 2d and 3d. Harrowing. 4th. Piling. 5th. Went to meeting 
at Mr. Swan's. 6th, 7th. Piling. 8th. Carried Clarissa to school ; finished 
sowing grain. 9th. Harrowing. 10th. Ditto. 11th. Finished harrowing ; 
went to conference meeting at Merrill Chase's. 12th. Went to meeting at 
Mr. Chase's. 13th. Went to Mr. Swan's. 14th. Began lopping limbs. 
15th. Ditto. 16th. Went to Minot. 17th. Tarried at Minot on account 
of the rain. 18th. Returned home. 19th. Went to meeting at L. Whit- 
man's. 21st. Went to Paris. 22d. Went to Mr. Bacon's. 23d. Lopping 
limbs. 24th, 25th. Ditto. 26th. Went to meeting at Mr. Swan's and heard 
Mr. Woodward. 27th. Lopping limbs. 28th. Burned my fell trees. 29th. 
Junking and piling. 30th, 31st. Ditto. 

June 1st. Junking and piling. 2d. Went to meeting at Mr. Whitman's. 
Mr. Ricker came here. 3d, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th. Junking and piling. 
9th. Went to meeting at Mr. Swan's and heard Elder Hooper. Went to 
the water, saw my wife, Merrill Chase's wife and Calvin Cole baptized. 
10th, 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th. Planting corn. 16th. Went to meeting 
at Mr. Whitman's. 17th. Went to mill, and to Croswell's store. 18th, 19th, 
20th, 21st. Planting potatoes. 22d. Went to conference at Consider 
Cole's. 23d. Went to Meeting at Mr. Swan's and heard Mr. Hooper. 
24th. Falling trees. 25th. Went to Minot. 26th. Went to Mr. Brown's 
and got a sheep and two lambs, and returned home in company with Polly. 
27th, 28th, 29th. Falling trees. 30th. Went to meeting at Mr. Whitman's 
and heard Mr. Sewall. 

July 1st. Falling trees. 2d, 3d. 4th. 5th. Ditto. 7th. Went to meeting 
at Mr. Swan's. 8th. Went to mill. 9th, 10, 11th, 12th. Falling trees 
13th. Went to conference at Jacob Whitman's. 14th. Went to meeting at 



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Mr. Whitman's. IGth. Went to mill. 17lh, 18th. Falling trees. 19th. 
Set Mr. Kicker's piles a-fire. 20th. Finished falling trees. 21st. Went to 
meeting at Merrill Chase's. 22d. Began haying. 23d, 24th, 25th, 26th, 27th. 
Ditto. 28th. Went to meeting at Mr. Swan's. 29th. Haying. 30th. 
Hoeing potatoes. Went to a church meeting at Mr. Swan's. 

August 1st. Went to Norway and got the rolls. 2d. Went to mill. 3d. 
Weeding potatoes. 4th. Went to meeting at Mr. Whitman's. 5th, 6th. 
Mowing. 7th. Went to Willises and went to Mr. Swan's to a lecture, and 
heard Elder Low. 8th. Stacking hay, and went to Mr. Bacon's. 9th. 
Helped cut a road from our opening to Mr. Curtises. 10th. Mowing. Went 
to conference at Consider Cole's. 11th. Went to meeting at Mr. Swan's 
and heard Elder (1) Kicker. 12th. My wife went to meeting at Mr. Hutch- 
inson's. 13th. Finished stacking hay. . 14th. Went to a falling at Chris- 
topher Bryant's. 15th, 16th, 17th. Reaping. Went to meeting at Mr. 
Chase's and heard Deacon Packard and old Mr. Whitman. 19th, 20th, 21st. 
Reaping. 22d. Went to a funeral at Luther Briggs'. 23d, 24th. Reaping. 
25th. Went to meeting at Mr. Whitman's. 26th, 27th. Reaping. 28th. 
Threshing some wheat. 2Uth. Went to Mr. Bacon's to have shoes mended. 
30th, 31st. Reaping. 

September 1st. Went to meeting at Mr. Swan's. 2d. Reaping. 3d. 
Went to mill. 4th. Ditto. 5th, 6th. Reaping. 7th. Went to Paris. 8th. 
Returned. 9th, 10, 11th. Reaping. 12th. Went to Norway, brought my 
cattle from Esq. Bisco's, and changed my heifer for a cow with Capt. Shaw. 
13th. Drove them home, and drove the oxen to Solomon Bryant's. 14th. 
Heavy rain, which damaged my grain very much. 15th. Went to meeting 
at Merrill Chase's. 16th. Began to take care of my grain. 17th. Brought 
my oxen from Solomon Bryant's, and began fencing. 18th. Began stacking 
my grain. 19th. Had Mr. True and Merrill Chase, and stacked my grain. 
20th, 21st. Fencing. 22d. Went to meeting at Luther Whitman's. 23d. 
Rainy. 24th. Went to mill and carried some new corn. 25th. Threshing. 
26th. Stacked my seed hay. 27th. Fencing my apple trees. 28th. AYent 
to mill. 29th. Went to meeting at Mr. Swan's. 30th. Took in my Hax. 

October 1st. To work for Mr. True. 2d. Cutting up corn. 3d, 4th. 
Ditto. 5th. Went to conference meeting at Mr. Cole's. 6th. Went to 
meeting at Mr. Swan's. 7th. Got some basket stuff. 8th. Went to a 
funeral at Mr. Benson's. 9th. Dug my potatoes. 10th. To work for Mr. 
True. 11th. Helped Mr. Berry lay up log house. 12th. Husking. 13th. 
Went to meeting at Mr. Whitman's. 14th. Preparing for my wife to go to 
Minot. 15th. Went to Paris and settled with Dr. Crosswell. 16th. Rainy. 
17th, 18th, 19th. Husking. 20th. Went to meeting at Merrill Chase's. 
23d. Went to Mr. Briggses. 27th. Went to meeting at Mr. Swan's. 31st. 
Finished husking. 

November 1st. Went to husking. 2d. Went to mill. 3d. Went to 
meeting. 4th. Went to husking in the evening to Mr. Curtis'. 6th. Haul- 
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ing grain for Mr. Ricker. 7th. Began to cut timber and laid the foundation. 
8th. Mr. Ricker came to build his house. 9th. Went to conference meet- 
ing at Brother Whitman's. 10th. Went to meeting at L. Whitman's. 11th. 
To work for Mr. Ricker. 12th. Ditto. 13th. Killed Mr. Thurlo's heifer.. 
14th, 15th, 16th. Cutting road. 17th. Went to meeting at Mr. Cliase's. 
18th. Helped lay Mr. Curtis's house. 19th, 20th. Hauling logs. 21st. 
Hauling wood for Merrill Chase. 22d, 23d. Hauling logs. 24:th. Went to 
meeting at Mr. Swan's. 25th. Went to Minot. 26th. Returned home. 
27th. Went to Mr. Berry's. 28th. Thanksgiving. Went to meeting at L. 
Whitman's. 29th. To work on the county road. 30th. Ditto. 

December 1st. Went to meeting at L. Whitman's. 2d. Looking land 
with Mr. Millett. 3d. To work on county road. 4th. Looking land with 
Bearce and Randall. 5th. Went to mill. 6th. Rainy. 7th. Hauling 
wood. 8th. Went to meeting at Mr. Swan's. 9th. Fixing for laying up 
my house. 10th. Laid up my log house. 11th. Very cold. 12th. Went 
to church meeting at Paris. 13th. Returned home. 14th. Went to con- 
ference meeting at Consider Cole's, loth. Went to meeting at M. Chase's. 
16th, 17th, ISth, 19th, 20th, 21st. To work on house. 22d. Went to meet- 
ing at Luther Briggs'. 23d. Killing hogs for M. Chase. 24th. Killed hogs 
for myself. 25th. Laid my threshing floor. 20t,li. Threshing. 27th. 
Cleaned up my grain. 28th. Went to mill. 2!)th. Went to meeting at L. 
Whitman's. 30th. Hauling logs for Mr. True. 31st. Brought home a meat 
tub and salted over my pork. 



1806. 

January 1st. Went to Mr. Briggs' with my wife. 2d. Killed a hog and 
started for market. 3d. To work for Christopher Bryant. 4th. Work on 
road. 5th. Went to meeting at Mr. Swan's. 6th. Piling. 7th. Stormy 
8th. Getting timber. 9th, 10th. Ditto, lltli. Went to conference. 12th. 
Went to meeting at L. Whitman's. 14th. To work on entry floor. 15th. 
Threshing. 18th. Went for Dr. Stevens ; my wife very sick. 20th. Judith 
Thurlo came here to take care of my wife. 21st. Went to mill. 26th. 
Went to meeting at Mr. Swan's. 27th. Getting wood. 28th. Set out for 
Minot; met Mr. Millet and Edmund Chase and returned. 29th. Went to 
Minot. 30th. Went to Mr. Ixicker's. 31st. Returned home with my sheep. 

February 1st. Hxing brush round my apple trees. 2d. Went to meeting 
at L. Whitman's. 3d. Stormy. 4th. Fixing sheep pen. 5th. Threshing. 
6th, 7th. Ditto. 8th. Went to conference at Luther Briggs'. 9th. Went 
tQ meeting at Mr. Swan's. 10th. Carried Judith Thurlo home, lltli. Fix- 
ing a covering over looms. 12th. Covering my sheep pen. 13th. Weaving. 
14th. Went to mill. 16th. Breaking roads. IGth. Meeting at my house. 



APPENDIX. 291 

17th, 18th, 19th. Threshing. 20th. Mr. Hooper came here. 21st. Went 
to meeting at Mr. Swan's and heard a lecture from Mr. Hooper. 22d. 
Cleaning gi-ain. 23d. Went to meeting at Mr. Swan's. 24th. Went to a 
church meeting at Paris. 25th. Went to Paris. 27th. Threshing. 

March 1st. Threshing. 2d. Went to meeting at L. Whitman's. 3d. 
Went to Paris, and attended their town meeting. 4th, 5th. Threshing. 
6th. Went to Minot. 7th. Returned home. 8th. Went to conference at 
Mr. Cole's. 9th. Went to meeting at Mr. Swan's. 10th. Hauling wood. 
11th. Went to mill. 

(I have neglected writing from the 11th of March to the 8th of May, when 
I begin to sow my grain.) 9th. Harrowing. 10th. Went to conference at 
Mr. Bryant's. 11th. Went to meeting at Mr. Whitman's. 12th. Harrow- 
ing. 13th. Ditto. 14th. Went to mill. 15th. Harrowing. 16th. Fin- 
ished harrowing. 17th. Junking. 18th. Elder Hooper preached here. 
19th. Set some piles; the fire ran into the woods and got into Merrill 
Chase's fell trees and grain. 20th. Piling. 21st, 22d, 23d, 24th. Ditto. 



292 



APPENDIX, 



CENSUS OF 1S70 



Davis, Herrick C. 


44 


Small, Joseph P. 


64 


Lucy M. 


40 


Phebe E. 


50 


Sam'l r. 


15 


Willie E. 


17 


Carrie L. 


■ 2 


Nancy W. 


13 






Abbie D. 


10 


Crockett, Nath'l B. 


48 






Lydia J. 


35 


Whitman, Joseph 


49 


Kate H. 


17 


Martin A. 


47 


George L. 


4 


Adrianna 


15 


Edward S. 


11-12 


Myra 


6 






Francis E. 


3 


Whitman, Leonard 


37 






Ellen F. 


28 


Leonard, Solomon 


76 


Luther 


72 






Gertie E. 


7 


Currier, Oliver C. 


27 


Zilpha 


69 


Delia L. 


24 






Minnie M. 


3 


Curtis, Jeremiah H. 


33 






Adelia 


30 


Berry, Horace C 


33 


Mary P. 


2 


Angle M. 


24 


Kine, Mary 


20 


Stephens, Ezra 


39 






Laura B. 


38 


Burgess, Augusta 


18 


Cora L. 


13 






John E. 


11 


Whitman, Gilman A. 


32 


Anna L. 


9 


Evelina 


28 


Phebe 


7 


Clara M. 


5 


Lydia, 


5 


Gerald B. 


1 


Infant, 


3-12 


Pi-ay, Sarah 


58 


Irvin, James H. 


22 


Lucinda 


33 










Gorman, William 


21 


Estes, Horace S. 


41 






Harriet B. 


31 


Morgan, Charles 


20 


Farnum, Clarissa 


63 


Akers, Mary B. 


45 






Lizzie A. 


21 


Day, Thos. R. 


33 


Chas. S. 


6 


Maria G. 


28 










Trull, Alanson M. 


38 


Farnum, Joseph \V. 


14 


Laura A. 


31 





APPENDIX. 


29 


Trull, Ernest C. 


4 


Bowker, Delphinus P. 


29 


Flora M. 


2 


Sarah P. 


26 


Herbert 


1 










Bryant, Albion 


23 


Cole, Lucinda A. 


16 










Cole, Henry F. 


28 


Bowker, 'Winfield S. 


16 


Flora J. 


24 






Mira L. 


4 


Br3'ant, George W. 


30 






Mary E. 


26 


Berry, Leonard B. 


63 






Hannah 


62 


Durgin, Henry F. 


64 






Dorotha E. 


61 


Glines, Orin 


47 


Angle H. 


40 


Tila 


44 


Nancy M. 


36 


Josephine W. 


13 


Conant, Joseph 


40 


Houghton, Horatio F. 


38 






Mary E. 


39 


Brock, Sam'l A. 


34 


George D. 


16 


Mandana, 


36 


Lena I. 


7-12 


Florence E. 


7 










Swan, Moses 


32 


Sheeran, James 


26 


Viola E. 


35 


Amanda M. 


23 










Tucker, Sarah F. 


12 


Crawford, Benjamin 


69 






Sophia 


69 


Fletcher, Michael 


22 


Cushman, Sophia 


37 


Berry, Cyrus P. 


37 






Lucy H. 


30 


Mixer, Horace 


22 


George W. 


6 


Ayer, Thomas 


64 


Mountfort, Albert 


43 


Hannah 


48 


Caroline 


40 






Ella H. 


16 


Day, William 


27 






Sarah E. 


24 


Cole, Frank M. 


37 






Cynthia A. 


30 


Young, Herbert A. 


6 


Eugene 


11 


Mountfort, Augustus I. 


37 


Bryant, Cynthia 


60 


Loanza 


35 










Loveitt, Frederick 


35 


Dolloff, Clarence D. 


15 


Ella 


40 






William F. 


11 


Perham, Joel 


73 


Caroline II. 


7 


Susan 


65 


Nettie S. 


5 


Joel, Jr. 


44 


John F. 


2 


Libby, Hiram L. 


35 


Whitman, Alanson M. 


56 


Margaret A. 


33 


Eleanor 


40 


Minnie F. 


6 










Woods, James 


9 


Perham, Sylvauia 


44 










Billings, Lorenzo 


49 


Burns, Etta 


18 


IVIirsilva 


40 






Frederick 


19 


Swan, David G. 


33 


Orietta E. 


9 


Sarah 


31 






Minnie M. 


7 


Lapham, William B. 


41 



294 



Lapham, Cynthia A. P. 
Mary C. 
Ben W. 

Bartlett, Lucetta 

Dunham, Rufus K. 
Abbie B. 
Emma F. 
Mary S. 
Charles R. 
Eva A. 

Dunham, Ransom 
Susan 

Ricker, Thomas N. 
Mary E. 

Young, Lizzie R. 

Snow, Hannah 

Ricker, Lucy 
Arthur 

Cole, Diantha 
Melrose 

Rowe, Stephen 
Elvira 
Augustus L. 
Lizzie 

Chase, Alfred 
Elvira 

Bolster, Lyman 

Betsey F. 
Albert C. 

West, Myrtilla 

Houghton, Charles R. 
Mary E. 
Jennie M. 

Aldrich, Emma 

Whitman, Elvina S. 
Anstice A. 
Aldana C. 
IdaM. 

Jacobs, Nath'l F. 
Eliza A. 
Areanna S. 
Delia M. 
Lizzie F. 
Lifant 



APPEN 
29 


DIX. 

Bartlett, Jeremiah 


2 


Mary S. 


5-12 


Frederick M. 




Walter H. 


15 


Mary P. 


46 


Soule, Frederick 


46 




17 


Grant, James 


15 


Lottie R. 


12 


Minnie E. 


10 


Hattie W. 


72 


Malcolm, En. Earl 


74 






Jackson, Calvin A. 


55 


Achsa D. 


53 






Whitman, George W. 


5 


Eliza J. 




Infant 


78 






Davis, Charles 


63 


Harriet 


11 






Whitman, Delphina 


31 




9 


Swan, Alonzo B. 




Betsey J. 


54 


Rhoda J. 


55 


Edith V. 


29 


Lillian D. 


21 


Alonzo F. 




Frank W. 


68 


Florence M. 


57 






Lapham, John E. 


61 


Martha C. 


61 


Carrie M. 


20 






Morgan, Jacob 


19 


Marrietta 


27 


Swan, Chas. W. 


23 


Mary W. 


7-12 


Emma R. 


18 


Bryant, Lawson C. 




Harriet N. 


42 


Hattie M. 


22 




18 


Estes, Sullivan A. 


15 


Mary R. 




Harry M. 


41 


Hiram A. 


37 




18 


Trull, Helen A. 


8 




6 


Tenney, Samuel 


8-12 


Sarah A. 



59 
57 
27 
21 
22 

16 

37 

30 

4 

1 

24 

57 
53 

31 

21 

11-12 

55 
53 

52 

38 

40 

16 

15 

11 

6 

3 

1 

23 

19 

1 

26 
19 

28 

20 

3 

27 

27 

2 

43 

48 

10 

6 



41 
41 





APPENDIX. 


29 


Tenney, Laella F. 


10 


Frost, Elvira A. 


23 


Warren N. 


15 


Dolly S. 


1 


Clara J. 


10 






Emma S. 


8 


Yates, William 


70 


Anna E. 


8 


Abigail 


51 


Swan, Gains C. 


36 


Perham, Azel 


65 


p:sther A. 


26 


Elvira 


64 


Alaric A. 


11 


Charles 


19 


Louis N. 


10 






Marilla M. 


1 


Estes, Stephen 


72 






Eleanor 


75 


Bryant, Amos S. 


34 






Jenette 


33 


Rowe, Joseph 


65 


Lizzie M. 


12 


Catherine 


65 


Georijie E. 


8 






Ada A. 


3 


Halket, David 


41 


Joseph 


60 


Fanny 


30 






Effie 


11 


Foster, Alden 


18 


Henry 


9 


Powers, James W. 


33 


Chamberlain, Enos C. 


31 


Lydia C. 


25 






John D. 


2 


Swan, Foxwell 


82 






Mary 


83 


Rowe, Charles 


31 






Margaret A . 


24 


Allen, Elliot C. 


29 


Mordant 


4 


Anna E. 


24 


Angle E. 


2 


Ada W. 


2 


Susan M. 


1 


Elmer C. 


1 


Millett, Oliver 


32 


Millet, Cyrus 


42 


Nancy 


26 


Judith 


40 


Hiram F. 


9 


Frank M. 


17 


Elmer A. 


7 


Ada W. 


16 


Walter S. 


2 






Eugene 


2-12 


Fuller, Charles 


66 






Hannah 


65 


Lapham, John 


60 


Mary J. 


35 


Aurelia 


35 


Hannah E. 


32 


Frank M. 


21 










Rowe, Merrill J. 


50 


Rowe, Newell F. 


48 


Petsey G. 


49 


Sarah A. 


50 


Edwin M. 


13 


Jewell, Ezra 


60 


Flagg, Abel M. 


34 






Lucy 


36 


Russ, James 


60 






Mary A. 


60 


Day, Alexander 


• 63 


Henry 


21 


Eliza 


64 


Antoinette 


16 


Alexander, Jr. 


22 


Harden, Mark 


28 


Ricker, Mary 


65 


Gallison, John M. 


53 


Wyman, Harriet 


55 


Sarah A. 


53 






John A. 


15 


Aldrich, James H. 


22 


Perham, James L. 


27 


Cole, Southern 


64 






Polly 


55 


Frost, Samuel 


29 


Walter 


4 



J96 


APPENDIX. 


t 


Cole, Dennis W. 


33 


Cole, Julietta 


15 


Loanna 


27 


Lalia 


13 


Elmer D. 


8 






Fred. H. 


5 


Libby, Danville J. 


43 


La Mont 


2 


Esther C. 


42 






Herbert 


14 


Cole, James T. 


30 


Mary L. 


10 


Harriet N. 


IG 






Alverden L. 


6 


Brooks, Alpheus 


20 


Walter E. 


4 






Infant 


1-12 


Felt, Alonzo 


36 






Emily J. 


27 


Bobbins, David 


19 






Anna L. 


15 


Bryant, Alice 


20 


Knight, Thaddeus R. 


52 


Ricker, Willard, 


13 


Hannah 


50 










Billings, Christopher 


30 


West, Otis 


48 






Ann 


84 


Felt, Jeremiah 


73 


George 


9 


Eliza 


72 


Ludell 


6 






Linden 


3 


Davis, Stephen C. 


41 






Martha E. 


39 


Bessee, Caleb 


56 


Corinna 0. 


13 


Elizabeth 


38 


Florence E. 


6 


Hattie 


12 


Ronello C. 


3 


Arthur L. 


10 






Albert 0. 


8 


Perham, Andrew J. 


33 






Ann H. 


30 


Bessee, Hannah 


40 


Fremont 


9 






Herbert A. 


6 


Farrar, Almon J. 


27 






Henrietta 


19 


Brown, Georgie 


15 


Henry H. 


2 










Felt, John 


19 


Small, Christopher 


23 






Betsey F. 


18 


Billings, Albert 


15 


Aldrich, Asa 


16 


Cushman, Frederic 


16 


Cushman, Isabella P. 


33 


Ridlon, Ezra 


42 


Hanno H. 


12 


Eliza J. 


39 


George L. 


10 


George 


14 






Ellen F. 


7 


Russ, Sam'l L. 


30 


Infant 


1 


Sibyl J.. 


28 






Mabel 


2 


Perham, Columbus 


54 






Mary F. 


35 


Cole, Albion P. 


45 


Alfred C. 


3 


Julia 


43 






Deloraine 


10 


Washburn, Lawrence 


11 


Lura 


4 






Abigail 


76 


Lang, Ida 


17 


Louisa M. 


37 










Chase, Alden 


51 


Jordan, Stilman 


20 


Lucy C. 


49 






Estella 0. 


23 


Cole, Wm. H. 


39 


Aquila M. 


15 


Albina 


39 






Edwin 


17 


Benson, Abbie 


19 





APPENDIX. 


29 


Maxim, Luther 


26 


Whitman, Emilv 


24 






CoraM. 


7 


Bowker, Albion P. 


40 


Oscar F. 


5 


Angeline 


36 


Chas. A. 


2 


Oscar r. 


14 






Stella M. 


2 


Noyes, Eli M. 




Bowker, George "W. 


38 


Stephens, Benjamin 


63 


Anna F. 


30 


Julia M. 


62 


Johnson, Joseph E. 


36 


Harper, Julia 


23 


Lovina 


39 






Nathan A. 


10 


Stevens, Emerson 


7 


Hannah 


5 










Taylor, William 


18 


Gray, Frank 


15 










Lurvey, Thos. T. 


54 


Bowker, James L. 


24 


Mary A. 


38 


Ellen E. 


22 






Irvin L. 


3 


Curtis, Margaret 


11 


Percy 


1 


Wm. F. 


9 


Mary A. 


66 










Tucll, Alonzo 


62 


Perham, Kilbon 


47 






Sarah J. 


43 


Churchill, Levi 


49 


Clara W. 


21 


Lucy 


59 


Edwin 


18 






Mabel L. 


6 


Swan, Gideon 


83 


George Q. . 


4 


Catharine 


79 


Leavitt, Lovernam 


18 


Davis, Lucinda 


30 


Whitman, George 


14 


Curtis, Benj. C. 


34 






Ellen 


33 


Lawrence, Ephraim 


33 


William II. 


10 


Eunice E. 


34 


Seth L. 


8 


Izella F. 


9 


Curtis, John C. 


6 


Georgie E. 


4f 


Mabel L. 


3 






Ernest B. 


1 


Ricker, David 


59 






Lois 


60 


Irish, Aaron M. 


50 






Hannah 


47 


Cummings, Allen T. 




Hannah A. 


14 


Eliza 




Miriam 


12 


Maurice 




Ruih 


9 


Francella 




Almon 


3 


Franklin D. 








Melroy E. 




Penney, Llewella 


11 


Rinaldo L. 








Arthur A. 




Andrews, Ziba, Jr. 


21 






Mary A. 


21 


Gray, Herbert 




Wilfie A. 


2 


Merrifield, George L. 




Cotton, George 


11 


Gray. Austin A. 


63 


Andrews, Ziba 


63 






Thankful 


64 


Thomas, James 


22 






Sarah F. 


16 


Andrews, Isaac W. 


37 






Elvira 


34 


Whitman, Thomas J. 


29 


EvaL. 


16 


20 









298 



APPENDIX. 



Andrews, Frank R. 
Alva M. 

Hasey, Sarah A. 

Fuller, George G. 
Lozina 

Robinson, Carrie' A. 

Davis, Charles 
Harriet 

Thurlow, Franklin H. 
Phebe A. 
Mary 
Hattie A. 
Nellie A. 
Angeline 
Freddie 
Anna 

Bicknell, William 
Mary 
Viola 
Vietta 
Virginia 
Victor 

Stevens, Francis F. 
Charlotte 
Fred. 
Frank 
Ada F. 
Charlie E. 
Miunie 

Bryant, Arvilla 

Merri field, George P. 
Eineline 
Frances E. 
Franklin H. 
Mary A. 
Eugene G. 
Charles W. 

Fuller, Oliver L. 
Betsey 

Carver, Lewis 

Starbjrd, Clarendon 
Eliza A. 
Mertie 

Bryant, Mahlon 
Lydia 
Clara G. 

Farrar, Consider 



13 
9 

25 

42 

39 



Farrar, Mary P. 

Jeremiah B. 
Francis E. 

Dudley, Otis 

Mahala 
Jeremiah E. 



31 

11-12 

12 

31 

25 

5 



14 Cole, Frank 



38 
34 

39 

38 

12 

10 

7 

5 

1 

1-12 

40 

40 

10 

6 

2 

1 

40 
37 
12 
12 
10 
6 
8-12 

62 

45 
40 
15 
13 
11 
9 



29 
70 

16 

44 
44 



59 
59 
16 

28 



Dudley, Perrin 
Paulina 
Charity 

Young, Freeland 
Evelyn 0. 

Day, John 
Ann 

Dudley, Alzina 

Robie, Osborn 

Bryant, Alfred D. 
Jennie L. 
Minnie E. 
Althea L. 

Davis, Abbie 

Estes, Ida 

Swan, Sam'l S. 
Catherine 
Sam'l G. 
Ella S. 

Day, Elijah 
Mahala 
James M. 
Linda 
Emogene C. 

Ballard, Orin 
Mary 

Cobb, Ivory 

Whitman, Zephaniah B. 
Eliza 
Eugene Z. 

Rawson, Zephania B. 

Whitman, Fannie 

Hathaway, Mehitable 

Alice 

Mellen 

John 



19 

67 
58 
90 

26 
20 

69 

68 

42 

19 

34 
28 

6 

4 

15 

14 

58 
46 
15 
10 

49 
47 
18 
22 
15 

22 
21 

24 

60 
56 
19 

12 

81 

38 
15 
11 





APPENDIX. 


29 


Bacon, Abel 


44 


Mitchel, Julia J. 


20 


Cordelia 


40 


Florence E. 


7 


Herbert 


19 


Delia B. 


5 


Walter 


2 










Curtis, Isaac S. 


46 


Whitman, Elon G. 


47 


Abby B. 


43 


Lncy B. 


40 






Oliver G. 


18 


Curtis, Daniel 


72 


Reuben M. 


16 


Charlotte 


62 


Edson L. 


14 






Charles W. 


12 


Fuller, Caleb 


39 


Almond M. 


8 


Marietta 


30 


Lucy E. 


4 


Herman 


15 


Ronello B. 


2 


Wyunie E. 


1 


Whitman, Charles H. 


39 


Fickett, Chester D. 


44 


Eimira P. 


34 


Charles A. 


21 


Albert L. 


12 


Lucy E. 


17 


Martha A. 


10 


Simon A. 


11 


William H. 


8 






Le Forest W. 


6 


Curtis, Simeon B. 


37 


Frank N. 


4 


Betsey G. 


40 


Burton 


2 


Ruth 


67 






Julia F. 


20 


Ilowe, Isaac 


38 






Sarah 


39 


Tribone, Frederick 


20 


George 


14 






Augustine 


10 


Lurvcy, Thos. T. 


27 


Charles 


8 


Matilda 


23 


Willie 


5 


Anvaletta 


10-12 


Etta 


4 






Henry 


9-12 


Curtis, Fred. 


4 


Farrar, Benj. F. 


47 


Curtis, Crosby 


59 


Dorcas W. 


49 


Mary 


59 


Mary J. 


8 


Polly 


73 


Farrar, Joseph 


52 


Whitman, Reuben 


58 


Abigail 


66 


Abby 


28 


Des 


92 


John 


22 


Edgar 


23 










Day, Daniel 


35 


Doughty, Sam'l B. 


64 


Martha 


30 


Mary S. 


64 


Martha L. 


12 


Edwin 


30 


Daniel L. 


10 


Arthur 


13 


Quincy A. 


9 






Alden E. 


8 


Wyman, Freeman 


29 


Bertie 


1 


Mary A. 


34 






Cora D. 


2 


Curtis, Stephen B. 


22 


Bryant, Lizzie A. 


11 


Curtis, James P. 


24 






Daniel 


66 


Curtis, Holland 


40 


Charlotte 


54 


Eliza 


28 






Solon 


9 


Swift, Linneus 


14 


Lillian E. 


8 






Vesta»M. 


6 


Ellingwood, Oscar P. 


38 


Nellie M. 


4 


Ann 


34 






Edith M. 


12 


Mitchel, William W. 


34 


George E. 


8 



300 



Ellingwood, Chas. H. 

Curtis, Asbury C. 
Jennie 
Frank A. 
Socrates C. 
Adna J. 
Adoniram 
Genett 

Davis, Seth C. 
Almina 
Alice E. 
Ella A. 
Arthur 

Davis, Joseph H. 
Juliette 
Elmer B. 
Marietta 
Antoinette 

Ford, Herbert 

Davis, William S. 

Georgie A. 

■ George W. 

Davis, Lorenzo 
Laura W. 
Abbie E. 
Charlie H. 

Thurlow, Aaron 
Betsey 

Davis, Nancy 
Lucy 
Lizzie 
George C. 
Lovina T. 

Bryant, Cyrus S. 

Healey, Lydia 

William 

Kidlon, Ezra 

Rebecca 

Benson, Eli M. 

Nancy C. 
Eli M., Jr. 
Nettie J. 
Josephine 
Infant 

Harmon, Marceno 

Noyes, James C. 
Mary 



APPENDIX. 


3 


Andrews, Jesse 




Rachel 


27 


Genett R. 


22 


Willie C. 


3 


Edwin 


22 


Nellie 


17 




53 


Perkins, Daniel 


49 


Druzilla 




Hannah F. 


42 




32 


Perkins, Freelon 


7 


Isabella 


6 




1 


Cotton, William 




Trlphena 


33 


Clara 


23 




4 


Hammond, Jason 


3 


Sarah 


28 






Cotton, Ellis 


14 


John 


23 


Hammond, Francis 


19 


Hannah 


9-12 






Robbins, Anna 


51 




50 


Robbins, Richard 


15 


Oriett H. 


15 


Orlandon W. 




Daniel E. 


44 


Agnes 


48 


Infant 


75 


Dunham, William S. 


30 


Nancy L. 


7 


George E. 


6 


Albertus A. 


4 


Joseph 




Mary 


50 






Beck, Lyman 


37 


Augusta A. 


9 


Lizzie E. 




Frank N. 


83 


Freddie 


84 






Kendall, Joshua 


40 


Emily N. 


35 


Anna E. 


11 


Nellie F. 


8 


Clara E. 


6 




1-12 


Dunham, Melville 




Calista 


66 


Daniel, Jf . 




Orisa 


59 




53 


Dunham, Daniel 



39 
40 
16 
13 
7 
3 

59 

59 

28 

32 

28 

66 



65 
63 

16 
10 

42 
44 



35 

11 

8 

3 

3-12 

36 
27 
7 
2 
63 
56 

30 

28 
6 
4 
2 

41 

30 

13 

6 

3 

' 34 
33 
25 

21 





APPENDIX. 


30 


Dunham, Mary 


CO 


Whitman, Carrie E. 


5 


Floville 


40 










Proctor, Levi 


31 


Curtis, Ambrose 


30 


Sarah 


23 


Calista 


33 


Lizzie 


1 


Galon 


6 






Ernest 


3 


Verrill, P'rank N. 


33 






Abby 


33 


Stephens, Mary 


55 


Frank E. 


12 






Emma 


8 


Tristram, Haley 


47 


Lizzie E. 


6 






Freddie 


4 


Bowker, Cyprian 


78 


Charles 


3 


Curtis, Levi L. 


35 


Wyman, Charles 


12 


Perkins, Frank 


14 


Verrill, Edward 


37 






Isabell 


31 


Curtis, Davis P. 


30 


Edward 


10 


Daniel H. 


27 


Edna 


4 


Fanny 


19 


Etta 


2 






Infant 


312 


Pratt, James II. 


36 






Caroline H. 


33 


Proctor, Chas. F. 


35 


Ella F. 


14 


Christina 


33 


William H. 


11 


Mary A. 


12 


Herbert E. 


7 


"» 




Rebecca R. 


4 


May, Jeremiah 


32 






Anna F. 


30 


Benson, Sam'l W. 


36 


Sarah 


5 


Rebecca 


36 


Alice 


3 


Adams, Moses 


50 


Hasey, James R. 


40 


Loisa 


18 


Margaret 


35 


George 


5 


James 


6 


Cotton, John H. 


42 


Pratt, Webster 


12 


Christiana 


41 






Laura A. 


16 


Hasey, David 


70 


William F. 


12 






George E. 


10 


Proctor, William 


40 


Llewellyn 


8 


Adaline 


32 


Lydia E. 


2 


Henry L. 


13 






AdaF. 


11 


Kimball, Benjamin 


40 


John W. 


9 


Narcissa 


28 






Columbus 


8 


Whitman, Jacob 


62 


]\lary E. 


2 


Mary 


63 


Rich, John F. 


38 


Felt, Granville N. 


36 


Diana 


27 


Clara 


31 


Isabella A. 


16 


Eliza A. 


2 


AdaL. 


14 


Infant 


1-12 


Rubv W. 


9 






Walter F. 


4 


AVhitman, Eliza B. 


22 


Winnie 


1 










Felt, John G. 


60 


Whitman, George L. 


:^7 


Ager 


60 


Mary S. 


31 


Lucy F. 


14 


Lorana M. 


14 






Mabel I. 


9 


Trull, Uriah 


17 



302 



Brown, Joseph 

Elizabeth 
George E. 
Ermina 

Whitman, George 

Brown, Benjamin 

Rowe, Willison 
Laura A. 
Eugene E. 

Billings, Silas 
Abby 

Rowe, William 

Billings, Eleazer 
Mary J. 
Orsamus 

Wing, Elbridge G. 
Roduska 
Effie 
Perley 

Billings, Charles 

Russell, Moses M. 
Eveline 
Elwyu S. 

Cushman, Frank 

York, George H. 
Amanda 

Howard, Esther 

York, David 

Ilarding, William 
Mary E. 
E-rank A. 
John F. 
Charles A. 

Russell, Orlando 

Harris, Henry S. 
Pernielia 

Buck, Hiram H. 
Georgietta 
Carrie E. 
Erastus 

Tucker, Cyrus A. 
Caroline 
Lillie 



APPENDIX. 


51 


Tucker, Amy 


48 


John 


16 


Amasa 


10 






Jacobs, Charles 


21 






Bobbins, Oliver 


&4 


Judith 




Eva A. 


32 


Estella 


24 


Elmer 


7 


Irvin 




Mary 


70 




63 


Perry, Eleanor 


73 


Thorn, Samuel 




Amy 


53 


William 


48 




14 


Rowe, Daniel 




Ellen 


30 


Alphonso 


24 




4 


Perry, Bartlet H. 


2 


Lucretia 


62 


Gowell, Elmer 


45 


Billings, Emerson 


49 


Anna 


12 


Betsey 


14 


Bryant, Chauncy 




Loring 


36 




32 


Parlin, William 




Sarah 


61 


Albert R. 




John C. 


66 


Edith M. 


31 


Davis, Benjamin 


34 


Melissa 


9 


Elroy 


4 


Elmer 


1 






Billings, Augustus 


28 


Harriet 




Washington 


55 


Elizabeth 


55 


Rosalinda 




Leora 


38 


Arabel 


32 


Nellie 


13 


Lorenzo 


9 


Simeon 




Merrill J. 


36 


Elmer 


32 




13 


Abbott, Alpheus 



11 

6 
1 

13 

50 

49 

17 

15 

9 

5 

2 

78 

70 
60 
19 

26 

21 



51 
51 

12 

28 
22 
63 

19 



40 
26 
14 



42 

41 

13 

2 

42 
42 

22 
20 
18 
16 
14 
12 
10 



1 

00 





APPENDIX. 


30 


Abbott, Betsey 


20 


Farnum, Natli'l J. 


60 


Susan 


6-12 


Bathsheba 


50 






Simeon 


14 


Davis, Benjamin 


73 


Horatio 


13 


Emma J. 


29 


Charles 


17 


Hopkins, Peter 


55 


Sessions, Charles 


37 


Experience 


53 


Nancy 


28 


Albert W. 


20 


Charles I. 


8 


Josephine 


19 


Sam'l D. 


3 


Lorenzo I). 


17 






Sheloa E. 


14 


Farrar, Rufus 


62 






Chloe 


63 


Farnum, Natlianiel 


28 


Francis 


20 


Deborah 


25 


Lovica 


11 



INDEX OF NAMES. 



305 



INDEX OF NAMES 



Adams 4,81,92, 121, 124, 120 

Family, 170, 254 

Allen 11, 121, 192, 212, 248, 257 

Andrews, 52, 56, 71, 72, 91, 116, 117 
118,120,122,131. Family, 170, 
192, 199, 200, 207, 214, 217, 221, 
224, 252, 257. 

Ackley, 78, 241 



Abbott, 115, 116. Family, 169, 177, 
226, 260. 

Annas,. 138. Family, 171,221 

Ayer Family, 172 

Aldrich, 198, 225 

Ayer, 205 

Atwood, 222 



Bonney, 11,258 

Bryant, 12-14, 20, 22, 23, 25, 27, 28, 
30, 34, 35, 39, 40, 42-44, 63, 68, 
70, 72-75, 78, 81, 91, 92, 94, 104- 
106, 108, 109, 111, 112, 114, 116, 
117,127,131,134,171, 179,182, 
183. Family, 185-189, 191 , 196, 
198-200, 203, 204, 208, 209, 217, 
218, 220, 226, 228, 240, 246, 247, 
249-251, 253, 256-259, 263, 264. 
IJriggs, 13, 20, 23, 25, 30, 30, 38, 39, 
42, 44, 68, 69, 81, 82,-86, 91, 103- 
106, 111-114, 116-118, 120-122, 
' 124, 154. Family, 182, 183, 185, 
186, 193, 196, 207, 218, 221, 241, 
255, 258, 259. 



Berry, 13, 23, 39, 68-71, 78, 100, 105, 
110,115-117,125. Family, 172, 
170, 177, 185, 187, 195, 196,230, 
234, 247, 262, 263, 267. 

Bartlett, 17, 59, 61-64, 73, 78, 112, 

125. Family, 174, 187, 188, 208, 
213, 216, 235, 244. 

Bisbee, 20, 22, 28, 30, 33-37, 39, 42, 
86, 91, 92, 104-106, 120, 124. 

126, 129, 130, 138, 143, 148, 149. 
Family, 180, 189, 212,216, 232, 
236, 244, 246, 256, 265. 

Bacon, 20, 23, 59, 78, 130, 132. Fam- 
ily, 172, 177,180, 182, 186, 194. 
197, 223. 



•Names in the Appendix are not indexed. 
21 



306 



INDEX OF NAMES. 



Billings, 23, 28, 30, 33, 35, 37, 33, 40, 

42-44, 50, 65, 74, 91, 92, 104- 

106, 1L7, 119, 120, 128, 133, 134. 

Family, 178, 193-195, 217, 227, 

242, 253, 259, 260, 204. 

Bradley, 29, 174 

Brooks, 37, 38, 40, 56, 63, 66, 91, 92, 

105-107, 127, 148, 150, 151. 

Family, 183, 185, 188, 203, 218, 

221, 226. 
Bessee, 37, 40, 42, 43, 74, 105, 106, 

108, 109, 115-117, 122, 124, 154. 

Family, 178, 195, 231, 243, 254, 
' 260, 264. 
Bowker, 40, 76, 78, 91, 94, 100, 101, 

105, 106,110,112, 115,116,120, 

125. Family, 181, 189, 191, 

204, 210, 225, 237, 244, 246, 256. 

Bannister, 44, 47 

Barrows, 59, 61-64, 92, 1 12. Family, 

173, 200,221,220,247,218,267. 
Buck, 59, 62-66, 117, 126, 174, 178, 

183, 184. Family, 187, 188, 

199,215,234,248. 
Bailey, 60, 63, 65, 94. Family, 172, 

191,211. 
Bearce, 62-65. Family, 175, 187, 188. 
Burns, 64, 65, 127, 175. Family, 188, 

231. 
Becklar, 68, 70. Family 176, 217 
Benson, 71, 75, 110, 173, 191, 208, 

210, 224, 243, 256, 261, 263,265. 

Beavins, 72,75 

Bemis, 1 12, 201, 239 

Bird, 74, 103, 197,258 

Brock, 78, 125. Family, 183 

Barstow, 78 

Beal, , 79, 182 



Bale, 93 

Bradbury, 93, 125-127, 173, 

Bolster, 100, 101, 109. 110, 125. Fam- 
ily, 180,181,212,226. 

Burgess, 100, 101, 205 

Blake, 112, 228 

Bixby, 117, 230 

Bicknell, 120. Family, 178, 181, 208. 
224, 239, 246. 

Bennett, 121, 263 

Burk, ^ 124 

Babb 126 

Bragdon, 126 

Brown, 127, 187, 216, 231, 234, 247. 
256. 

Bridgham 127, 201,215 

Burnell, 155 

Brunell, 162 

Brackett, 182 

Bean 182, 215, 267 

Barker, 184, 230, 236, 248 

Bragg, 188, 255 

Blanchard 188 

Butterfield, 191, 239, 244 

Bumpus, 193 

Barden, 204 

Barrett, :..208 

Bent 208, 212 

Bucknam, 209, 267 

Bennett, 213 

Bishop, 216 

Buzzell, 222 

Burr,. 231 

Bigelow, 248 

Burnham, 253 

Barrett, 256 

Bittlestone, 258 



C. 



Chandler 11, 36, 71, 92, 127, 129 

Curtis, 13, 17, 20, 22, 23, 24, 25, 27, 30, 

33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 40, 42, 4«. 

51, 52, 55, 56, 59, 80, 81, 91, 92, 



104-106, 111, 112, 116, 128, 
147, 173, 181, 185, 191, 193. 

Family, 200, 201, 203, 204, 
208-210, 216, 219, 221, 239, 265. 



INDEX OF NAMES. 



307 



Chase, 16, 17, 20. 23-28, 30, 31, 33-38, 
41-51, 5&-57, 67-70. 75. 76. 79. 
80, 86,88,91,92.94, 10:^110, 
112, 122, 124. 127, 128. 130, 1.36, 
151.152,181,185.186. Family, 
190, 193. 195.200,203,208,217, 
218, 235, 244, 245, 250, 255, 
264. 

Cobb, ....18, 26. 208 

Chadbourne 1 8, 187 

Carpenter, 25. 191 

Colburii, 25. .30. Family. 194 

Churchill, 30, 34. 35, 37, 55, 78. 91. 92. 
104-106. 125, 182. Family, 
193, 200, 209, 224, 235, 246, 
259. 
Cotton, 30, 86, 87, 92, 104-106, 111, 
116, 124, 125. Family, 196, 

204, 2.38, 252, 255. 

Cole, 31, 37-40. 68. 69, 72, 73, 75, 
78, 91, 104-106, 108, 112-114, 
116, 124, 125, 132, 177-179, 
181-183, 191, 192. Family, 
195, 196, 206, 213, 228, 236, 
242-244, 255, 258, 264, 266. 
Clifford, 36-38,48,49, 59, 104, 111. 

Family, 194, 212, 259. 
Carman,. . . .39, 70, 105, 109, 186, 188 
Cushman, 43, 52, 55, 56, 74, 91, 94, 
107, 113, 114, 147. 181, 197. 
Family, 202, 217, 219, 221, 231, 
248, 255, 266. 

Crocker, 46, 47, 52, 131, 154 

Cummings, 52, 60-66, 7;^»-76, 78, 82. 
103, 112. 116. 171, 178, 185- 
188, 195. Family, 198-200, 

205, 212, 220, 228, 233, 2.34. 



Cates 63, 65, 236 

Crockett. 64, 65, 78, 121, 125, 173, 

197, 198, 201,250. 
Clark, 74, 91, 92, 157. 179, 180. Fam- 
ily, 193, 194, 210. 
Caswell, ........76,92, 97,196,265 

Carter 76,91. 181, 189,22.3,248 

Coffin,... 76-78, 80, 100, 101, 182, 228 
Chamberlain, 92. 180, 186. Family, 
189,216. 

Corliss 100 

Currier ■ 108, 109 

Cargill 110 

Crawford, 119, 120. Family, 197, 
202, 220. 

Carpenter, 121 

Croswell 127 

Crosby, 129 

Case, 177 

Chapin, 177,208 

Cooper, 179, 183 

Carryll 180 

Cross, 183 

Carr. 189 

Cram 189. Family, 196, 265 

Cushing, 189, 222 

Crooker, Family, 198, 234, 243 

Childs 210,266 

Conant, 210 

Cary 213 

Cox, 218,250 

Chandler, 221 

Coy 222 

Cook, 231 

Caldwell 240 

Connery 242 



D. 



Day, 13, 22, 28, 30. 33. 34, 37, 40, .50, 
6.3-65, 75, 76, 78, 81, 92, 104. 
105, 108, 110, 111, 113, 114, 
125, 128, 146, 172, 194, 199. 



Family, 205, 209, 215, 228, 243, 
250, -.^67. 
Dow, 19, 23, 30, 91, 104-106, 171. 
183. Family, 207, 211. 



308 



INDEX OF NAMES. 



Dunham, 19, 23, 40, 71, 73, 74, 88, 
91, 92, 94, 99, 104-106, 109, 
111, 119, 120, 124, 125, 144, 
148, 153, 154, 171, 178, 181, 
182, 199, 201, 207. Family, 
210, 211, ,212, 214, 221, 238, 
240, 247, 252, 260. 

Dudley, 19, 23, 28, 30, 34-38, 40, 50, 
55,65, 75, 70, 78, 80, 91,92, 
100, 101, 104-106, 111-114, 125, 
181, 186, 201, 203, 205. Fam- 
ily, 207-209, 217, 229, 243, 247, 
248, 264. 

Drew, 20, 23, 30, 187 

Daicy, 22, 30, 38, 104-100, 112, 200. 
Family, 202, 203, 206, 222, 259, 263. 

Dexter, 28 

Davis, 34, 35, 37, 40, 51, 55, 56, 80, 
81,88,91,92,94,104-108, 111, 
113, 114, 116, 124, 127, 131, 
181, 183, 186, 191, 196, 200, 
201. Family, 203, 204, 209, 
213, 217, 218, 219, 221, 227, 
236, 239, 242, 243, 245, 248, 
251, 257, 260. 

Dolloff, 40, 42, 92, 105, 106. Family, 
206, 260. 



Durell, 40, 92, 105, 106, 112, 211, 
Family, 212, 247, 252. 

Dunn, 42, 252 

Daniels, 59, 62 

Darmon 62 

Dingley, 100 

Drake, 68, 70, 71, 154, 207 

Dore, 77 

Doughty, 78, 116. Family, 206, 207 

Downing, 81 

Doten, 92, 256 

Doane, 92, 176 

Dockham, , 93 

Durgin 125 

Danforth 127 

Dana, 130, 156 

Dearing, 200 

Doe, 200 

Dunbar, 218 

Dwinell, 226 

Davy, 234 

Dean, 235, 236, 265 

Dennen, 239 

Dale, 263 

Drinkwater, 266 



Ellis, 55, 91, 194, 204. Family,. .213 
Estes,56, 66, 72, 73-75, 94, 125, 154, 
188, 195, 200, 211, 212. Fam- 
ily, 213-215,241, 243, 251. 

Eldridge, 81,82 

Edgerly, 93, 171. Family, 213 

Ethridge, : 117 

Ellingwood, 171, 173, 182 



Emery, 182, 184, 242 

Edwards, 219 

Emerson, 230 

Elliott, 2.30 

Eames, 234 

Enearl, 264 

Everett, 266 

Eastman, 268 



Fuller, 17, 22, 30, 35, 37, 38, 52, 76, 
78, 91, 92, 104-106, 111, 112, 
116-120, 125, 127, 134, 183, 184, 
199,201-203, 208, 210, 212, 216, 



218, 219. Family, 220-222, 
248, 260. 
Fobes, 18, 23, 30, 104. Family, 219 



INDEX OF NAMES. 



509 



Felt, 20, 22, .".0, ?>7-39, 78, 91, 94, 104, 
105, 17G, 179, 185, 191,202, 204, 
209, 210, 216. Family, 217, 
218, 244, 255, 250. 
Farrar,31, 104, lOG, 112, IIG, 128, 189, 
212. Family, 216, 217, 221, 
227,241,245,253,260. 
Fickett, :J7, 40, 42, 51, 55, 50, 81, 91, 
92, 105, 106, 183, 185, 191,204, 
20.), 217. Family, 218, 219, 
221, 239, 242, 206. 

Fairfield, 63 

Frost, 04, 78,222 

Frye, 77, 121 . Family, 220, 250 

Fifield, 78, 203, 205, 213 

Greenwood, 11, 13, 10, 47, 190 

(Jray, 18, 24, 28, 34-37, 51, 78, 104- 

100, 177, 203. Family, 223, 

208. 

Gerry, 20, 82 

Green, 30, 34, -35, 37, 92, 104, 110, 120, 

189, 196. Family, 22-3, 224, 

260, 266. 
Gallison, 56, 76, 78, 94, 108, 118-121, 

155, 220. Family, 222. 

Grant, 68 

Goud, 74,91,178 

Gaines, .* 77 

Gilbert, 78,205,213 

Goodricli, 79, 214 

Getchell, 92 

Glincs 92. 265, 267 



Farrington 82 

Fairbanks, 82, 188 

Frazier, 82 

Ford 82, 185, 192 

Fogg, : 82, 91 

Farnum, '91, 92, 108, 115, 116,119. 

120, 127, 188, 205. Family, 

215, 210, 225, 23.3. 
French, 92, 100, 202. Family, 219, 

222, 2.32, 230, 254. 

Freeman, 93 

Frink, 176 

Foster, 198, 200, 214, 200 

Faunce, 203, 241 

Foss, 221 

G. 

Godfrey, 93 

Godwin, 124, 1 78, 240 

Grover, 127, 177, 186 

Gilpatrick 181 

Gowell, 182 

Gordon, 182 

Gookin, 182 

Griffin, 180 

Gates, 191 

Goss, 197 

Greenleaf , 204 

Gibson, 220. Family, 222, 223 

Greeley, 221 

Gage, 230 

Graham, 233 

Gurney, 244 

Grimes, 245 



H. 



Hammond, 11, 20, 2-3, 34, 104-100, 
111, 177, 202, 203, 222. Fam- 
ily, 224, 252, 260, 262. 

Hutchinson, 18, 23, .30, 134 

Hubbard, 24, 26, 30, 129 

Harris, 36,197 

Howard, 40, 105, 221, 222 

Hale, 47 



Houghton, 54-56, 77, 78, 91, 109, 110, 
121, 122, 125, 130, 181. Fam- 
ily, 225, 226, 254, 264. 

Hamlin 59, 62 

Hodges, 59, 194 

Hemmingway, 60-62, 179, 187, 218, 

225. 
Hicks, 63, 241,247 



310 



INDEX OF NAMES. 



Hooper, 69 

Hall, 74 

Herrick, 75, 183, 199, 204, 218 

Hodgdon, 75 

Hilton 76,7.S,181 

Hobbs,....78, 121, 188, 215. Fam- 
ily, 225, 262. 
Hannaford, 82, 91, 118, 120, 178. 
Family, 224. 

Hazeltine, 83, 201 

Heath, 92, 223. Family, 224 

Hasey, 92, 182, 196, 238, 250 

Hartford, 93 

Harding, 116 

Howe, 121, 124, 170, 225, 232, 237, 
249, 268. 

Holmes, 129, 172,221 

Hamlin, 129 

Hill, 170, 189,211,265 

Hathaway, 172, 195, 217, 232, 246, 

253. 
Haley, 176, 223, 224 



Irish, 18, 35, 78, 187, 193. Family, 
226, 227, 240, 246. 



Howland, '.179 

Harlow, 181 

Hopkins, 182. Family, 225 

Holt 186, 208 

Hackett, 192 

Humphrey, 1U7, 267 

Hnzzoy 199, 268 

Hinkley, 206 

Hoyt, 215, 250 

Hanson, '. 217 

Hayes, 221 

Head, 230 

Hutchins, 232, 266 

Hartwell, 234 

Haynes, 236 

Holland,.... 238 

Haskell, 239, 246 

Houston, 240 

Harvey, 245, 260 

Holden, 257 

Hodsdon, 263 

Ingalls, 156,157 



Joycelin, 12 

Jarvis, 15 

Jackson, 43, 53, 73, 74, 91, 116, 141- 
143, 173, 179, 202, 205, 211, 
212, 216. Family, 227, 228, 
238, 239, 264. 

Jordan, 60, 100, 116, 184, 186. Fam- 
.ily, 229, 233, 241, 252, 267. 

Jewett, 75 

K 

King, 26, 76, 157,245 

Kittredge, 52, 127 

Kimball, 57, 60-64, 66, 73, 74, 117. 
155, 167-159, 178, 188 221, 



Jacobs, 76, 100, 101, 108, 109, 119, 
120, 125. Family, 228, 229, 
244. 

Johnson, 77, 204, 216 

Jewell, 78, 101, 109, 115-117, 119, 
120, 124, 125. Family, 229, 249 

Jameson, 130, 156, 200 

Judkins, 216,241 

Jackman, Family 227 



227, 229. Family, 230, 231, 
238, 245. 
Kent, 63 



INDEX OF NAMES. 



311 



Knight, 78, 91, lOS, 110, 121, 125, 131, 
180, 181, 183, 215, 220. Fam- 
ily, 232, 233, 248, 252, 250. 

Kennerson, 83 

Kinsley, 86, 87, 92, 122, 124. Fam- 
ily, 232, 255. 

Kincaid, 03 



Knapp, . . 115, 125. Family, 2.32, 268 

Kalcr, 121 

Kendall, ....126,223 

Kidd 134 

Kiigore, 179 

Kecne, 181, 260 

Kclley, 226 



Lapham, 3, 56, 56, 60, 62, 73-75, 78, 
100, 101, 108, 109, 116, 117, 

119, 120, 124, 126, 160, 177, 
186-188, 108, 100, 230. Fam- 
ily, 2.34-2.36,241, 246, 251, 250. 

Litby, 11, 22, 55, 78, 100, 120, 181, 

21.3, 218, 219. Family, 237, 

264. 

LewLs, 14, 15, 18 

Little, 16, 1% 20, 41, 43, 44, 47, 48, 58, 

100, 203, 250, 263. 
Lothrop, 20, 22, 20, 104, 105, 110, 113, 

114. Family, 238. 
Lunt, 30, 40, 91, 92, 104-100, 196. 

Family, 238. 
Landers, 40, 42, 43, 74, 75, 02, 105, 

106, 147, 148, 177. Family, 

233, 234, 254. 

Lincoln, 46 

Lurvey, 56, 92, 106, 107, 113, 114, 118, 

120, 178, 200, 203, 218. Fam- 
ily, 238, 230, 2.50, 257. 

Mussey, 26 

March, 41-45, 47, 48, 225 

Mostly, 45 

Moody, 60-62, 05-67, 73-75, 78, 94, 

216, 234, 237. Family, 240, 

241. 
Merrill, 65-67, 100, 108, 109, 125, 190, 

100. Family, 240, 253. 

McCrillis, 65 

Moore, 65, 106, 244, 245 

Morgan, 05, 250 



Leonard, .56, 92, 107, 148, 162. Fam 
ily, 236, 265. 

Low, 60, 69, 173 

Lawrence, 72, 74, 217, 218, 251 

Lyons, 72, 76 

Latham, 81 

Lull, 82 

Leavitt, 115, 242 

Look 124 

Littlefield, 1.30 

Lebroke, 176 

Lovejoy, 177 

Lucas, 182 

LaCharite, 188 

Lane, 107,261 

Luce, 200 

Leighton, 207 

Lombard, 222, 245 

Lampher, 226 

Loriug, 237 

Locke, 258, 250 



M. 



Macomber, 70 

Milner, 71, 72 

Morton, 75, 175, 231 

Miilett,....78, 117, 126, 219, 253, 254 
Marshall, 81, f2, 177, 182, 226, 227. 
Family, 240. 

Mitchell 82, 207, 220, 250 

Mooar, 82 

Miller 82, 83,85 

McKibbin, 93 

Murray, 109 



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INDEX OF NAMES. 



Marr, 116 

Mason, 117 

McKenney, 119, 120, 124,227 

Mayberry, 121 

Morrill, 129, 1G4, 228 

Maxim, 132, 173, 234 

Marble, 154, 170 

Mooney, 177 

Merwin, 178 



Mayhew, 181, 234 

Matthews, 188, 227 

McCobb, 197 

Mann, 206 

Monk 224 

Martin, 229, 241, 267 

Myrick, 230 

Mixer, 254 

Mugford, 257 



N. 



Nason,. . .14, 20, 23, 39, 180, 224, 246 
Nutting, 20, 23, 31, 39, 130, 138, 143. 

245. 
Nute, 42, 81, 91, 92, 100, 107, 162, 

179, 203, 204, 218. Family, 

241,242. 
Noyes, 58, 116, 170, 174, 175, 196, 197, 

224, 238. 



Newton, 66 

Nay, 182 

Needham, 188 

Norton, 191 

Nash, 192,237 

Noble 250 

Newhall, 266 



Owens, 13, 14, 17, 23, 200 Ordway, . 

Oliver 93 



.178 



Perry, 7, 60, 62, 82, 92, 131, 173, 177. 
Family, 248, 252. 

Peabody, 151 

Phipps, 15 

Perkins, 19, 23, 25-28, 31, 33-35, 37, 
38,47,49,50,50,70,71,88,91, 
104-106, 11.3-115, 121, 128, 209, 
210, 212, 217, 221, 224, 246. 
Family, 247, 266. 

Perham, 20, 21, 23, 25, 27, 28, 31, 34- 
40, 55, 56, 75. 76, 78-80, 88, 90- 
92, 94, 95, 100, 104-114, 116, 
120, 121, 124-126, 137, 156, 163, 
178, 180, 191, 193, 195, 200, 204, 
217, 219, 223, 227, 231, 235. 
Family, 244-246, 25-3, 265. 

Pollard, 20 

Packard, 22, 36,37, 88, 91, 105-108, 
112-114,116,127,171,178,187, 



195, 198, 204, 205, 213, 214, 
216, 238, 242, 243, 251. 

Phillips, 26, 28 

Page 26 

Poor, 26 

Parris, 28, 29, 33, 129 

Pratt 43, 117, 199, 206, 221, 258 

Pearson, 64, 65, 67, 117, 174, 208 

Family, 243. 

Pingree, 65 

Peverly '. . 65 

Pray, 66, 78, 119, 120, 125, 240. Fam- 
ily, 249, 254. 

Parlin 79,80, 177, 188 

Pool, 87, 177, 185. Family, 249 

Paine, 92, 146, 198, 200, 264 

Proctor 116, 181, 218, 240 

Pillsbury, 129 



INDEX OF NAMES. 



3i; 



Porter, 157, 170, 267 

Poland, 184 

Philbrick, 187 

Prentiss, IfW 

Pulsifer, 196 

Powers, 205 

Putnam, 218. Family, 249 

Pierce, 222 



Plummer, 220 

Penney, 226 

Porter, 230 

Phinney,* 234 

Peterson, 24 1 

Penley, 243 

Palfrey, 258 



Q. 
Quinby, 82 



R. 



Read, 15, CO 

Ricker, 16, 17, 19, 23, 34, 35, 37, 50, 

56, 68, 69, 72-75, 80, 91, 92, 

103-105, 108, 109, 112, 115, 116, 

135, 205, 206, 235, 243. Family, 

250,251,268. 

Reniff, 18 

Rand, 19, 23, 34, 50, 104-106, 112, 238. 

Family, 249, 261. 

Rust, 24, 26, 60, 254 

Ripley, 26, 112, 204, 232, 245 

Robinson, 44, 129, 205, 216, 243 

Russ, 52, 92, 108, 109, 114, 116, 118, 

120, 124, 131, 196, 202, 217. 

Family, 254, 255. 

Rawson, 52, 184, 264 

Reed, 60 

Richardson 72, 145, 236 

Randall, 78, 165, 197, 212. Family, 

250. 
Robbins, 91, 92, 106, 116, 131, 171, 



181, 196, 224, 248. Family, 

251,252,258. 

Richards, 100, 101 

Rowe, 91, 92, 94, 100, 101, 106, 113, 

114, 116, 126, 131, 145, 148, 179, 

217, 219, 233, 246. Family, 

252, 253, 260. 
Russell, 92, 121, 127, 140, 179, 184. 

Family, 255. 

Rich, 100 

Ryerson, Ill, 233 

Ridlon, 115, 117,261 

Rolfe, 125 

Roberts, 127, 221 

Riddle, 175 

Ransom, • 211 

Randall, ...220,223 

Rice, 221 

Rollins, 246 

Robertson 257 

Ray, 266 



Swan, 3, 1-3, 20, 22, 36-^39,42, 66, 68, 
69, 78, 91, 92, 104-106, 111, 115, 
116, 143, 172, 177, 179, 180, 182, 
183. 185, 186, 188, 191-195, 197, 
203, 215, 235, 236, 237, 240, 256. 
Family, 257-2-59, 263 

Shaw, 11, 41, 86, 87, 118, 120, 122, 
22 



124, 195, 199, 227, 231, 233. 

Family, 255. 

Sawyer, 16, 45-47, 115, 125, 229 

Storer, 16 

Smith, 17, 18, 24, 51, 121, 134, 173, 

207,211,218,242. 
Starbird, 18, 24, 51, 91, 104-106, 181. 



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INDEX OF NAMES. 



Family, 256, 261. 

Strong, 26, 28 

Stowell, 28 

Stephens, 36-39. 49, 56, 80, 84, 91, 92, 
105, 107, 113, 114, 115, 126, 
130, 203, 217, 218, 239. Fam- 
ily, 256-258 

Swett, 75, 180, 267 

Simmons, 78 

Sheran, 78, 210 

Stone, 81, 193 

Stubbs, 92 

Sands, 93 

Snow, 93, 208 

Swenarton, 93 

Sanf ord, 93 

Smiley, 93 

Small, 100, 124 

Stevens, 75, 77, 79, 117, 118, 120, 121, 
186, 242, 257, 262, 267. 



Sampson, 118, 120, 125, 223, 257 

Silver, 121,181,248 

Stearns, 124,197, 208 

Sawyer, 127 

Smart, 130 

Sanborn 144, 229 

Soule, 175, 209, 228 

Seavy, 182 

Spofford, 191, 192, 214, 216, 217, 265 

Sessions, 192, 207. Family, 255 

Shurtleff, 195,201 

Swift , 201,226,257 

Strout, 203 

Stockman, 203 

Story, 231 

Shepley, 244 

Severance. 261 

Snell, 262 

Stiles, 264 



Thurlow, 13, 20, 23, 34, 35, 37, 42, 55, 
56, 88, 92, 104-106, 111, 112, 
115, 136, 179, 221, 223, 238, 252,. 
254. Family, 260, 261, 264. 
Townsend, 19, 23, 30, 50, 104, 111, 
112, 250, 256. Family, 261. 

True, 19, 203, 224. Family, 262 

Twitchell, 36, 127, 160, 233, 2-58. 
Family, 262, 264. 

Tobey 46, 2.39, 256 

Thompson, 60, 76, 77, 261 

Tripp, 68, 69, 252 

Tucker 75, 191 

Tuttle, 76, 78, 121, 225. Family, 262 

Tenney, 77, 235, 267 

Tabor, 78 

V. 

Verrlll, 196,218 

Vosmus, 197 



Trull, 78, 100, 101, 194, 211, 214, 259 

Turner, 82, 187, 235 

Thorn, 92, 116, 206. Family, 259, 

260. 
Tuell, 92, 195, 200, 209, 225, 239, 244 

Taylor, 116 

Torrey, 118, 120 

Talbot, 129 

Tibbetts 174 

Tyler, 190 

Thayer 208 

Tracy, 215 

Tourtillott, 222 

Tribou, 223 

Tilden, 2-34 



Virgin, 253 



INDEX OF NAMES. 



315 



W. 



Whitinan, 8, 11, 13, 20, 22, 27, 34-37, 
47, 49, 54, 66, 57, 67-73, 75, 76, 
78, 80, 86, 91, 92, 94, 100, 104- 
108, 111, 11:3-117, 120-122,124, 
132, 133, 137, 149, 166, 165, 
170, 178-182, 191. 195,203,205, 
214, 216, 218, 220, 221,- 223, 
228, 236, 238, 245, 254, 257, 
260. Family, 262-266. 

Walton, 18, 19, 23, 26, 134, 170 

Woodman, 26 

Warren, 36-38, 78. 187, 194 

Williams,.. 66 

Woodward, 69 

Willis 69, 197,226 

Whittier 82 

Wyman, 92, 108, 251. Family, 266, 
268. 

Wall 93 

Weston, 93 

Webber, 108, 109 

Whitteraore, 115, 254. Family, 265 

Wormwell, 1^ 

Watson, 126 



Wiley, 127 

Wells, 129 

Washburn,. ...130, 171, 180, 209, 245 

White, 169 

Wing, 179, 260 

Winship, 185 

Welsh 189 

Wormwood, 195 

Wilbur, 197 

Wellcome 199 

West, 202 

Wallis, 206 

Wilson, 206 

Wellington, 207 

Wheeler, 215 

Wardwell, 215 

Whitten, 227 

Wheelock, 230 

Wright, ... 243 

Walker 243 

Wood, 251 

Webster, 260 

Wight, 263 



York, 78, 91, 116, 181, 229. Family, 

267, 268. 
Young, 108, 109, 112, 114, 116, 146, 

176, 200, 201, 205, 210, 222, 231, 



251, 260, 266, 267. Family, 
267, 268. 
Yates, 127, 195, 205, 218 



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